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Daniel Webster's Speech
Description: Webster gave a speech for Calhoune that urged the reduction of sectional tension
Significance: It shows how compromise would be ideal in the great nation
Cause: Growing tensions between the north and south; threatened secession
Effect: final attempts at compromise before the south decided to seceed anyway -
Bleeding Kansas
Description: Fights break out in Kansas for either free or slave control of the state
Significance: It shows how far people are willing to go to protect/abolish slavery
Cause: Kansas-Nebraska Act establishing popular sovereignty in the territory
Effect: Many deaths, mini-civil war -
John Brown's Execution
Description: John Brown, an active abolitionist who led a raid on Harper's Ferry, is hanged
Significance: He's martyrized in North, South begins to believe all Northerners are abolitionists
Cause: John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Effect: Ideas of southern secession begin to spread. -
Lincoln is President
Description: Lincoln is voted President by electorial majority after a four candidate election
Significance: Lincoln won by an electorial majority, but not popular majority, many southerners are upset
Cause: Campaigned to the north only and expanded platform to have multi-planks
Effect: Adds fuel to the fire of south v. north tension -
South Carolina seceeds
Description: The south seceeded from the Union
Significance: Can be used to prove the split between North and South and the inability to compromise
Cause: Compact theory, they wanted to preserve the institution of slavery
Effect: Six more states follow and seceed, Civil War
