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Fugitive slave act
This act made it so that citizens were required to capture and return fugitive slaves to their owners. -
Compromise of 1850
According to the compromise, Texas would relinquish the land in dispute but, in compensation, be given 10 million dollars. It would use to pay off its debt to Mexico. The territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be organized without mention of slavery. -
Ostend Manifesto
A document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to decide whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Caning of Charles Sumner
He was anti-slavery and he argued against congress about free and non-free states. He was caned by preston brooks because he was attaching his postal frank to the crime against kansas speech. -
The Dred Scott Decision
He was an African-American slave that was taken by his master, an officer in the U.S. Army, from the slave state of Missouri to the free state of Illinois and then to the free territory of Wisconsin. He lived on free soil for a long period of time. -
John Brown's Raid
Was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accomplished by 20 men in his party, was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee.
