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Compromise of 1850
Southerners were concerned because California beong admitted into the United States threatened the balance of slave and free states (Missouri Compromise). Clay wanted the North and South to not fight. The compromise was signed in Washington D.C. Slave trade was abolished in Washington D.C. -
The Fugitive Slave Law
A fugitive slave is a runaway slave. The law required citizens to catch fugitive slave and fugitives could not have a jury trial. For slaves in the North this law was a disaster. Free blacks were captured and sent to the south. Slave owners benefited from this law. This law was signed in Washington D.C. as part of the Compromise of 1850. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The author of this book was Harriet Beecher Stowe. She wrote this book in Maine. Stowe portrayed the perspective that slavery is not a good thing. This book encouraged abolitionist to want to stop slavery because it showed the cruelty of slavery. It was banned in most of the South because the South was pro-slavery. A lot of people thought this book was the real cause if the civil war, including President Abraham Lincoln. -
Bleeding Kansas
Lawerence, Kansas was a pro- abolition town. There was a lot of violence and a lot of blood shed in the Kansas Territory. This started because the Kansas- Nebraska Act abolished the Missouri Compromise. "During the Civil War, Kansas suffered the highest rate of fatal casualties of any Union state, largely because of its great internal divisions over the issue of slavery." Kansas became a state but was not part of the confederacy. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. Due to this verdict, slavery grew. Abraham Lincoln did not agree with the thought that slaves are property and he thought they should have individual rights too. The case happened at Washington D.C.The verdict handed down by the Supreme Court was that slaves are property not citizens. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown was an abolitionist who wanted to guide slaves in their escape from the south. Brown had a grand scheme planned for the slaves to escape. Him and his people would gather all the slaves during the raid and weapons would be supplied to them, but this never happened. He did this in Harper's Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia). John Brown was later caught at the arsenal's engine house and sentenced to death for his crimes and hanged.
