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Missouri wasn’t a slave state or a free state. The South wanted it to be a slave state the North wanted it to be a free state. They finally decided that when Maine became a state it would be free and Missouri would be a slave state
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Nat turner launched an attack and killed fifty-seven white people. The militia arrived and killed him and 100 black slaves. Since Nat did this black slaves weren’t allowed to go to church and have education.
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People in Texas, Utah, and New Mexico were allowed to catch runaway slaves and return them to their owner for a bounty. This Act made it much harder to get to Canada and be free.
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Pro-Slavery people went to Kansas and voted illegally. John was furious. he gathered a group of abolitionists and killed five white southerners.
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John Brown was going to try free slaves by force. He had finical support from abolitionists John Brown got his sons and his loyal supporters. He launched an attack on Harper's Ferry, Virginia they easily took down the town and the arsenal, but was forced back by the local militia. Two of his sons died he was also hanged on December 2, 1859
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Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee , North Carolina , Florida , Alabama , Arkansas , Virginia, and South Carolina created there own country, the confedery, Which was all the slaves states