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Missouri Compromise of 1820
In 1820 Maine is admitted to the U.S. as a free state. Since it is an uneven number, Missouri is admitted as a slave state. The compromise draws an invisible line at the 36x30 line above Arkansas territory. Every state South of that line will be a slave state and everything North would be free. In order to make the Southern states happy, they added that slaves that had escaped to the North could be brought back even if they were caught from a free state. -
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion 1831
A slave rebellion that was spreading fear around the south. it eventually killed around 60 and it resulted in retaliation of the rebellion, even for the people who weren't even involved. -
Kansas Nebraska Act 1845
Kansas was divided to two territories (Kansas & Nebraska). The slavery in each of the territories would be decided by the voters including the sovereignty. The results ended up being that Kansas had a bloodshed, The democratic party lost some support by the North but the good thing is that it gained the South, and lastly The Republican Party was made and it gain much power against all slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
California was confirmed as a free state and all the other territories could decide if they would like to apply for statehood if they wanted to be slave or free (popular sovereignty). The slave trade would be in D.C. and the compromise included the fugitive slave act in the runaway near the north and many people got mad. Eventually, Texas claimed mexico new mexico for 10 million dollar and it payed of their debt which gives Texas the Present Day border. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1851. It was about the horrors of slavery. Not just whippings and picking cotton, but what they don't teach in school or in many other books. When she published it the South view it as a propaganda and lies/ -
Dred Scott Decision
In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans or people of African ancestry were not citizens and could not sue in federal court for freedom or anything else. Slaves were still considered to property. They also ruled that the Missouri Compromise was not legal. They stated that the government can't tell states whether they can be free or slave. In the end angry anti-slavery voters voted for Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860. -
John Brown Raid on Harpers Ferry 1857
John brown was leading a failed raid on the slave rebellion. Though, he was captured during this anti-slavery revolt and later executed after being convicted for conspiracies and treason. -
1860 Presidential Election
Before Abraham Lincoln got elected, the Republicans promised to end the spread of slavery and to give free land in the west to settlers. When Lincoln got elected the Southern states seceded from the United States and created their own Confederate country. Lincoln made secession illegal and the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter.