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Compromise of 1820
The South wants to move their slaves into Missouri Territory, but the North doesn't. Congress decides that slaves are prohibited in former Louisiana territory, but not Missouri. -
Wilmot Proviso
In 1846, the United States gained territory from Mexico. The North wanted to make it so slavery was not allowed there. Then, there was a bill slaves were never to be allowed in territories won from Mexico. -
Free Soil Party
Main purpose was to keep slavery out of the West. That didn't last long though. -
The Compromise of 1850
The act of keeping slave states and free states equal. -
California: free or slave state?
Congress wanted to keep free and slave states equal, and was still to debate over the new territory that was won from Mexico. People from the South wanted to divide California into two states, with one half free and the other half a slave state. California ended up joining the Union as a free state. Unbalancing the amount of free states and slave states. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act caused many problems in the North. Because slave catcher didn't need an arrest warrant, and no jury trial to determine if they had caught a runaway slave. The North did not like being accountable for the slaves. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
People in Kansas and Nebraska were debating on whether they should allow slavery on their borders. This made many people in the North angry because this act was served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The northerners were upset, they liked the compromise. The Southerners were happy about this act. There was an election, and since that had so many difficulties and violence, Kansas had aquired a new name. -
Bleeding Kansas
Violence struck out at the election for the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Anti-Slavery leader, John Brown, and his sons attacked and murdered 5 pro-slavery men, Much more violence occured, giving Kansas it's name, Bleeding Kansas -
The Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was born and rasied as a slave. He was born in a slave state, and was moved into the north with his owners, Without knowing he was a free man in the North, he later realized after he moved back to the South that he was free in the North. He went to court so he could be free, but the court said that since he was black, he was not an American citizan. -
The Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Abraham Lincoln and Stephan Douglas are running for the senate in Illinois campain. Lincoln's plan (even though he was against slavery) was not to abolish slavery, but to keep it from spreding to any free states. Douglas strongly supported popular sovereignty and whetere to decide whether a territory would become a free or slave state. -
The Election of 1860
Time for a new president! The debate was split into four canidates. Lincoln and Douglas competed in the North, and Breckenridge and Bell competed in the south. Abraham Lincoln won in the north, and Breckenridge won in the south. -
The South Secedes
The South was upset that Lincoln won, so the South seceded from the Union. The North argued against this, but it was the South's choice to join the union, so it was their choice if they wanted to leave it.
