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Wilmot Provisio, outlawed slavery in any territory the United States might acquire from the war with Mexico.
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A series of laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
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It was an 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.
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It was a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that showed slavery as brutal and immoral.
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Was a 1854 law established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and grove their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
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A political party formed by opponents of slavery. The Northern Whigs formed this. The Southern whigs joined the Democratic party. This is a picture of the republican icon.
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He spoke against slavery in his speech, and in his speech he insulted Preston Brooks. Brooks then went into his office and hit him with a cane. This caused him to be disabled for years.
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When 5,000 people came over to Kansas from Missouri and voted illegally to change it to a slave state.
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The Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom; the court ruled against Scott.
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John Brown and eighteen others captured the Harper's Ferry arsenal. He sent men to rally and arm local slaves and he wanted to capture the weapons.
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The northern ans southern democrats had very different ideas about slavery.mThe democratic party began to split along sectional lines.
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Southern states wanted to secede from the Union. On December 20th 1860, South Carolina was the first state to secede from America. The other states started to drop out of the Union and form their own country called Confederate States of America. This picture shows the progress of the secession.
