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The compromise of 1850 consist of 5 laws passed that address the issue of slavery and territorial expansion. As apart of the compromise the fugitive slave act was amended and required that slaves to be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state. -
In 1854 Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed a controversial bill that would organize the area of Nebraska, that would later become Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, and the Dakotas. It raised that possibility that slavery could be extended into territories where it once had been prohibited. This them caused pro slavery and anti slavery activists to flock there to try and sway the vote. -
Bleeding Kansas was a series of small conflicts between anti slavery and pro slavery activists to gain control of the territory. This was to sway the debate over slavery in the new territory, and this further intensified the ongoing debate over the future of slavery in the United States. -
Preston Brooks savagely beats Northern Senator Charles Sumner in the halls of the Congress as tensions rise over the expansion of slavery. This created more tension between the north and the south over slavery, this then later gets pushed onto Dredscott and Standford. -
Dread Scott vs Stanford was a series of court cases between DredScott and Standford. This ruled that because Dredscott was considered property and not a true person it let him be transferred through multiple frees states without becoming free himself. This -
This was a debate between Stephan Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. Douglas and Lincoln were both personally against slavery but each had a different idea of how it would be solved. Douglas believed that popular sovereignty would solve it. While Lincoln believed that there was no easy way to get rid of it in states where it already existed, and planned to just stop the spread into new territories. -
John Brown a abolitionist that led a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now a West Virginia) In an attempt to start a armed revolt of slaves. -
Lincoln won the election due to him opposing slavery but he knew there was no easy way to eliminate. He thought the solution was to prevent it from spreading into new territories.