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defused a four year confrontation between the southern slave states and the north. Temporarily avoided secession or civil war at the time and it quieted a sectional conflict for 4 years.
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Element of the 1850 compromise. Said that all escaped slaves had to be returned to their former masters. Only made Northerners want to cooperate less.
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Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853. Influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.
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Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
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The party's founders totally opposed slavery. Didn't believe congress had the right to recognize slavery in territory. The Party wanted Congress to abolish slavery in the territories and ought to do so.
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Southern Congressman Preston Brooks beat Northern Senator Charles Sumner in Congress. Exemplified differences between North and South.
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A slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his stay in Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise made him a free man. The Court ruled that he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.
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Brown led an attack on a pro-slavery settlement. Ultimatley failed. It made any cooperation between North and South nearly impossible.
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Brown led an attack on a pro-slavery settlement. Ultimatley failed. It made any cooperation between North and South nearly impossible.
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Republican Lincoln won the 1860 election. South wouldn't accept this, and a few weeks later South Carolina secceeded from the unioun. More tension between North and South.
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Bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter. It was the beginning of the Civil War.
