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Increased sectionalism throughout the country and intensified the slavery debate. Essentially split the country in half based on slavery.
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American's were growing land huungry driven by manifest destiny. New lands acquired from American victory were added to the slavery debate.
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Wilmot proposed a law to ban slavery in all land gained from war with Mexico. Southern Senators killed the bill and it never became a law. Northerners outraged by southern control of senate.
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This Act allowed a single judge to decided the fate of blacks found in the north. The judges were biased because they were given more money for convicting blacks as slaves and sending them back to the south. Nothern abolitionists are outraged.
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Repealed Missouri Compromise becuase it introduced the notion of popular sovereignty to Lousiana purchase areas. This indicated further arguing between slavery advocates and abolitionists.
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Men from the north, wanting to send a message to southern slave owners, murdered hundreds of masters. These murders indicated that compromise was no longer a possibility in the United States.
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Northerners furious over Bleeding Kansas led to forming the Republican party in Ripon, Wisconsin. Main objective was to restrict slavery from all territories. Southerners saw this act as one of war.
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The distinction of the two sides of slavery is now evident in the new two party system. This is another example of the sectionalism acheived by the slavery debate.
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Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane after an aleged attempt at discredting Brook's uncle. At this point in time, not even men of governement can be civil.
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Supreme Court ruled that Congress couldn't restrict slavery in any territoy, effectively voiding the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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Abraham Lincoln argued that the United States wouldn't survive as half slave and half free, and Stephen Douglas advocated popular soverreignty.
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Depicted the authors views of slavery and had a huge impact on Northerners, and encouraged many to join the fight of abolition.
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Failed to arm slaves with knives, this act enraged the southerners and they no longer felt safe.
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Lincoln (anti-slavery) c. Breckinridge (pro-slavery)
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First legitamate fighting between North and South, the Civil War has begun.
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Last chance effort to preserve the union, restrict slavery north of 36 30 line, and to allow south of line, but it was to no avial.
