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Missouri Compromise
This was a debate about what free and slave states should be put in the union. This compromise let Maine in as a free state and Missouri in as a slave state. If they would have tipped the balance of the states. They handled this in Washington D.C. -
Wilmot Proviso
Leading up to the Civil War Wilmot Proviso was a major conflict. Part of a 2 million dollar bill to help the Mexican-American War. This passed the House but failed in the Senate since there was a greater representation of the south. -
Zachary Taylor
Taylor was the 12th president of the United States. He ran as a wig and died in office about a year after he was elected. He was an officer in the U.S. army but rose to be a major general then because of his victories became a war hero. His top priority as president was to preserve the union but failed because he died. -
Compromise of 1850
This was a law letting California in as a free state and Utah and New Mexico as territories with slavery in question. Henry Clay, Kentucky, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. They had to work on this in Washington D.C. but also involved these states -
Millard Fillmore
Filmore was the 13th president and was the last member of the wig party to be in the white house. He was the 12th vice president but the president Zach Taylor. Filmore also actually didn't have a vice president. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This act was put in place to get run away slaves back, but there were major issues. In the United States colored people got taken even if they were free so they had to carry papers so they wouldn't get taken and even then the sometimes would get taken to the south to be sold. -
Uncle Tom's Cablin
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was the second best selling book of the century and it was only beaten by the bible. Around 3 years after the book was published it was called "The most popular novel of our day". The book was written because Stowe went to the south and was mad at what she saw. -
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th present of the United States. He was a democrat and he saw that the abolishment movement was a threat to the unity of the nation. He also signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and enforced the fugitive slave act. -
Creation of the Republican Party
The party was created at the time of slavery and the debts about it. The republican party was opposed to slavery and they thought that the wig party was incapable of handling the spread of slavery.. -
Kansas Nebraska Act/Bleeding Kansas
This act was drafted by Stephen A. Douglas, and was drafted to help make the transcontinental railroad. This also caused the choosing of wither Kansas is a free or slave state. This causes bleeding Kansas because they all went into Kansas to change how the state was represented. -
Sumner Caning
Seneter Preston Brooks canned Charles Sumner. -
The Dred Scott Case
This was in the U.S. Supreme Court and it was a case with a slave against his owner. This case changed how people responded to slavery because the government had shown now that slaves were property. -
James Buchanan
James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States. He was president during the Dred Scott case and totally endorsed the decision. He also allied with the south because he tried to admit Kansas into the union as a slave state. -
Lincoln-Douglas Case
The Lincoln Douglas Debates were seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. The debates last from August 21st to October 15th. These debates were held in several towns across Illinois, Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charleston, Galesburg, Quincey, and Alton. -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown's raid was an effort to create an armed slave revolt. They took over Harpers Ferry's arsenal. They were soon defeted by the U.S. Marines. -
Lincoln's Election of 1860
Held across the United States on November 6th, 1860. It was a 4 was an election between Abraham Lincoln, John Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas. Abraham Lincoln was the winner of the election and became president of the united states. -
Southern Secession
During the civil war in the united states, the north and the south were at war about slavery. The north and the south separated which was called the southern succesion.
