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Missouri Compromise
To keep the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 giving Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.Also, with the exception of Missouri, this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north. In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Three years later the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision. -
Wilmont Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to get rid of slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War. Wilmot was a pennsylvanian representative that thought that the land acquired should never become slave states and that any territory that we got from the american mexican war and slavery shall ever exist in any part of this territory.even though this divided congress and kept going through it never became a law -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 has five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, this upset the even balance between the free and slave states in the U.S.. Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in an attempt to seek a compromise and get away from a crisis between North and South. -
Compromise of 1850 Continued
As part of the Compromise the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah. In addition, an act was passed settling a boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was a pair of laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the United States. The first Fugitive Slave Act let governments catch and return slaves to their owners and put bad things on anyone who helped in their escape. the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act which added more regarding the runaways and added even badder things for the people helping in their capture. The Act was hated by many states and they tried to go around it. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin made people see slavery in a whole different way and that they should see it in getting rid of slavery and how bad it is the book also helped teach people and inform them of how bad slavery was and it basically incited the united states civil war in a way a quote from the book is shown here when harriet stowe wrote the enslaving of the African race is a clear violation of the great law which commands us to love our neighbor as ourselves. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding Kansas got rid of the Missouri Compromise The Kansas-Nebraska Act was created by the illinois Senator Stephen Douglas. This act basically made it say that the issue of slavery would be decided by the people not congress which is called popular sovereignty. but After it was passed a lot of people started fighting and hurting and getting angry and this was just one small fight before the big fight of the civil war. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state and then returned to a slave state.Chief Justice Roger Taney was the judge on the Dred Scott case he said that slaves were not citizens of the United States and that you could not sue anybody. Also this decision made the missouri compromise not good and unconstitutional because they couldn't declare slave or not slave territories the13th and 14th amendments overruled this later on. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
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Lincoln Douglas Debate
In the lincoln douglas debate there were 7 debates in 1858 Illinois state election they discussed very important topics and talked about slavery they were debating for a place in the senate douglass loved to talk about popular sovereignty. Also the person who won the debate was douglas because they had these debates this put lincoln on the map as an important political person which later helped him in the presidential election in a few years the main discussion was slavery. -
John Brown’s Raid
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John Brown’s Raid
The U.S. military arsenal at Harpers Ferry was the target of an assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown originally part of Virginia, Harpers Ferry is located in the eastern part of West Virginia near the convergence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers. The -
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John Brown’s Raid
The raid was intended to be the first stage in an elaborate plan to establish an independent stronghold of freed slaves in the mountains of Maryland and Virginia. Brown was captured during the raid and later convicted of treason and hanged, but the raid inflamed white Southern fears of slave rebellions and increased the mounting tension between Northern and Southern states before the American Civil War. -
Lincoln’s Election of 1860
United States election of 1860,American election held in which Republican split between Northern and Southern Democrats.Abraham Lincoln Defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. The electoral split, particularly over slavery, and in the months following Lincoln’s election and before his inauguration seven Southern states, led by South Carolina seceded, setting the stage for the American Civil War. -
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Southern Secession
Secession starts the outbreak of the American Civil War, of the next year eleven states in the Lower and Upper South severed their ties with the Union. The first seven seceding states of the Lower South set up a government at Montgomery, Alabama. After fighting began at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor the border states of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina joined the new government. -
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Southern Secession
The Union was thus divided on geographic lines. Twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the United States, while the eleven slave states adopted the title of the Confederate States. -
Southern Secession
