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Compromise of 1850.
A package of five bills used to resolve tension between the North and South. As a result, Texas gave land to both New Mexico and Missouri, California was given it's independence as a state and was declared a free state, Utah and New Mexico were given the option of being slave states, a stricter Fugitive Slave Act was put into place and slavery was outlawed in Washington DC. -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about a slave was published by a school teacher and published in 1852. It became the second best selling novel of the century. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created the terrotories of Nebraska and Kansas. Also reppealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing settlers of those states to decide whether or not they wanted to keep slaves through popular sovereingty. -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent political disputes between the north and south over whether the state of Kansas would be a free or slave. The conflict resulted in at least 180 deaths. -
Brooks/Sumner Affair
Massachusetts Senator, Charles Sumner gave a speech which deeply offended South Carolina Rep, Preston Brooks. Two days after the speech he confronted Sumner and serevely beat him to the point of brain trauma -
Dred Scott Decision
A decision by the US Supreme Court that Africans brought to the US were not citizens and were not protected by the United States Constitution. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown's Raid on Harper Ferry was an attempt to begin a revolt against slavery by seizing A US arsenal Ferry in Virginia in 1859. -
Election of 1860
The election of Republican Abraham Lincoln into office. The south was distrought because enough northern electoral votes were secured to put Lincoln in office without any southern votes. This led to the immediate outbreak of the Civil War.
