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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise happened in 1820. The Missouri Compromise allowed slavery in Missouri. Now that Missouri allowed slavery, the united states were evenly divided between slave states and free states. The process of the Missouri Compromise lasted several months from December 1819 to May 1820. -
Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso submitted a American law that would ban slavery in territory that was received from Mexico in the Mexican war August 8, 1846. Wilmot Proviso suggestion was one of the major events that led to the American Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850
On January 29, 1850, senator Henry Clay recommended some compromises to prevent a crisis between the North and the South. Because of Senator Henry Clay’s compromises, the Fugitive Slave Act changed and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., had ended. The fugitive act changed slavery all around America and ended later slavery in Washington D.C. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850. In part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. Abolitionists nicknamed the Fugitive Slave Act the "BloodhoundLaw" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about anti-slavery. Harriet’s novel was published in 1852 and “helped lay down the groundwork for the Civil War” (Will Kaufman). This was because there were some stuff in the book that was more extreme than what slavery was like in real life. -
Kansas Nebraska Act / Bleeding Kansas
On January 23, 1854 the senate debated whether to repeal the missouri compromise or not. The Kansas-Nebraska Act proclaimed that the issue of slavery would be decided by the residents of each territory, this is known as voting or popular sovereignty. -
Dred Scott Case
The Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford was issued on March 6, 1857. The court declared that slaves were not citizens of the United States and could not sue in Federal courts. In addition, this decision declared that blacks were never free and could be put into slavery by anyone. The Dred Scott decision was overruled by the 13th and 14th amendments. But the case changed the course of slavery with new events to come and make the government tenuous. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
The Lincoln Douglas Debate was a series of seven debates between Lincoln (republican) and Senator Stephen Douglas (democrat). This happened in 1858 Illinois state election campaign as among the most significant statements in American (political) history. In the end Senator Stephen Douglas won. But because Abraham Lincoln was anti-slavery, Lincoln got more press than Douglas. -
John Brown’s Raid
October 16, 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown led a group of twenty-one men into the town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, with the intention of killing the federal people and capturing the federal arsenal there. With no resistance, Brown’s men seized the arsenal, an armory, and a rifle works. But his plan soon went south as more and more slave owners seized back the their arsenal and threw John Brown in prison and sentenced him to death . -
Lincoln’s Election of 1860
The election on Tuesday, November 6th 1860 was the sixteenth presidential election. In this election they were selecting the president and the vice president of the United States of America. The President that was taking office was Abraham Lincoln and the Vice President was John C. Breckinridge -
Southern Secession
When President Lincoln was inaugurated the South Carolina threatened to secede from the union because of Lincoln promising to end slavery. In total 13 states seceded from the union and became what was known as the Confederate States of America. Smaller battles occured in smaller towns but the big battle was yet to come.
