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Missouri Compromise 1820
There was a great dispute of where slavery would or not be allowed. The dispute happended and later on led to a compromise. The compromise was that Missouri entered as a slave state, while Maine was a free state. There was a 36'30" line drawn that decided whether or not a slavery was allowed in certain territories. The compromise was succesful for about 30 years, but soon after 1850, problems started to occur and compromise became less effective. -
Compromise of 1850
The slavery issue was to be decided by popular sovereignty. This ended slave trade in Washington D.C. which happened just after California entered as a free state. Following these events, strict fugitive slave laws were put into place. These laws made it so that if a slave was found as a runaway in a free state, they were to be captured and returned. This was the Norths way of compromising with the south. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This novel was written for the purpose of showing the evil of slavery by telling a story of an older slave that was whipped to death by the owner. As more people began to read the novel, Northerners started to change their view of slavery. While Southerners disagreed and said the novel was full of lies. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to figure out on their own if they wanted to allow slavery in their borders or not. -
Pottawatomie Creek Killings
because of all of the violence in Kansas, John brown and his four sons decide to go out and ride into town. They end up taking five, pro-slavery men out of their beds and killing them. John Brown said that he was doing what "God had told him to do". -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave who lived in free land and owner had died later on. Scott had abolitionists file a lawsuit for him, and it had went to the Supreme Court but he lost. The Court had ruled Scott wasn't a citizen but was property, and couldn't file a lawsuit. Also, the court ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in any territories, and repealed the Missouri Compromise. Southerners loved the ruling, and Northerners hated it. Meant slavery could spread into all territories. -
Lincoln Douglass Debate
Lincoln and Douglass Debate. Douglass believed that slavery should be decided by popular sovereignty. But, Lincoln disagreed and believed that slavery shouldn't be allowed into territories. Furthermore, Lincoln also believed the Nation wouldn't survive if fighting continued to rip apart the Union with the slavery issue. -
Raid on Harper's Ferry
Once again, John Brown led an attack against Pro-slavery men. This time with 5 black men and 13 white men. They planned on raiding an arsenal and starting a slave revolt but it failed as no slaves rose to his help and many of his men died. John Brown was arrested by Robert E. Lee and was hanged after being found guilty of murder and treason. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln ran against Douglass in Presidential Election of 1860. Southern states disliked Lincoln and what he believed in and immensly supported Douglass, but Linclon still was elected. Southerners became angry and said their opinions didn't matter, and that the North had way to much power. The southerners talked of seceding from the Union.
