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Missouri Compromise
This was a compromise written by Henry Clay in 1820 to resolve the conflict of balancing the power of the congress. The compromise was that Maine was added as a free state, and Missouri was added as a slave state. This evened out the power of congress. It divided the country where the south was the slavery side, and the north was the non-slavery side. -
Wilmot Proviso
This was a bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the war with Mexico. The actual bill did not pass. The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. The conflict over the Wilmot proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. ... Sectional political disputes over slavery in the Southwest continued until the Compromise of 1850 -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay introduced resolutions in 1850 in an attempt to seek compromise and avert crisis between North and South. The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington D.C was abolished. They would admit California as a free state. The people of the territories of New Mexico and Utah decide on the slavery question by popular sovereignty. The slave trade will be ended. Congress passes a strict new fugitive slave law. Texas would then give up its claims to New Mexico for $10 mil. -
Fugitive Slave Act
A fugitive slave law was passed, which required the north to return any slave that had escaped from it's plantation owner, as a penalty the law. It left the overall idea of slavery unsettled. The Fugitive Slave Law was the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850. A senator hoped that it would force the northerners to admit that slaveholders had the rights to their property. Instead, it made northerners think that slavery is evil. Then, northerners begin to resist the law. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe, the daughter of an abolitionist minister, was deeply affected by the Fugitive Slave Law. In 1853, Stowe published the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, about an enslaved man who is abused by his cruel owner. -
Kansas Nebraska Act/ Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854.The Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854 undid previous legislation that limited the expansion of slavery, such as the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which did not allow slavery in the north. -
Dred Scott Case
The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
The Lincoln–Douglas debates (also known as The Great Debates of 1858) were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
John Browns Raid
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry (also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harper's Ferry) was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Lincolns Election of 1860
November 6th 1860. President Lincoln was considered a catalyst for the american civil war. America was very divided at this time over slavery. Lincoln won the election and the south formed the confederate states of america. Lincoln abolished slavery and was soon assassinated. -
Southern Secession
The nation was breaking apart. Fort Sumter was built, Lincoln was president and Jefferson Davis was the president of the confederate states of america. Basically the states that went first were the states that everyone followed.
