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Missouri Compromise
Made a invisible line at he 36th parallel in which any state north of that line would be a free state, and any state south of that line would be slave state. Made by Henry Clay. -
Wilmot Proviso
It was a law proposed to ban slavery of any part of land that was acquired from the Mexican-American War. The law didn't pass trough the Senate because the South had a larger representation. -
Fugitive Slave Act
It said that any slaves that had escaped to the Northern USA, or even Canada should be captured and returned to their owners in the South. It was one of the most controversial laws at the moment -
Compromise of 1850
It added California, Utah, New Mexico, and some other states to the US. It split up Texas to form some other States. It strengthened the Slave Fugitive Law. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
It is a anti-slavery novel, which got people to think about the horrors of being a slave. It changed many people's thoughts, and feelings about slaves. It was the best selling novel of the 19th century. -
Creation of the Republican Party
It was the creation of one of the two biggest parties today. It was initially created as abolitionist met to create an anti-slavery party.... The Republican Party emerged from that meeting, and the first candidate was the well known Abraham Lincoln. -
Kansas Nebraska Act/ Bleeding of Kansas
The Kansas Nebraska Act allowed the people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to have slavery or not. People started to flock to the area so they could vote for there opinion on the cause. The Bleeding of Kansas is when Abolitionists had burned and destroyed towns and cities in Kansas. John Brown led many of the raids. -
Sumner Caning
It was an event where a Northern Senator had talked about a Southern Senator's slaves, ans how bad they were treated. He went into a lot of detail, and all Southern Senators felt angry at him, although they knew it was right, they had to do something about it. So next cession a Southern Senator went up to who had said all that, and beat him up with his cane.
It was the first time that Congress did not act very ethnic as gentlemen, but rather expressed their feelings with violence. -
Dred Scott Case
It is a case where a freed slave who had lived in the North for five years wants to be taken back to his master. The freed man sued his master, the case went all the way to the Supreme Court, and they said that he had so say because he was property. This made every state a slave-state. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of debates in which Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were trying to win over the Illinois legislature to become senator. Lincoln was very clear on his stand point with slavery and said that if he became senator he would try to remove slavery. -
Harpers Ferry
In the town of Harpers Ferry, there was a US army arsenal. John Brown attempted to take over the arsenal to arm slaves (that he believed would come out of the woods to help him). His whole attack party of 22 men lost to US Marines, who successfully took back the arsenal. John Brown's party was in the arsenal building for two days, from the 16th of May to the 18th. -
Abraham Lincoln's Election
Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election in 1860 over Stephen Douglas, John Bell, and John Breckinridge. For the South, this was the final straw, wanting to become the Confederate States of America. -
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Southern Secession
After Abraham Lincoln's election, many slave states felt that their way of life was being threatened. The first state to secede was South Carolina in late December 1860, and the last state to secede was Tennessee in June 1861. Eleven states had voted to secede, and two had attempted to but failed to pass in their state government. The stage was now set for the Civil War.
