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Missouri compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to see a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. -
Kansas Nebraska act
This allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide wether or not slavery was right between their borders. -
"Bleeding Kansas"- sacking of Lawrence
Bleeding Kansas or also known as border wars was a series of violent civil confrontations in the united states between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over slaver in Kansas. -
Dred Scott decision
The supreme court ruled against Dred Scott, a slave who sued for freedom after spending time in free territory. The decision which declared that slaves were not citizens and that the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional, northerners were outraged and contributed to the Civil War. -
The Lincoln Douglas debate
There was seven debates over state rights and slavery. Douglas thought that slave holding rights could be changed but slavery would still be in our country. Lincoln wanted slaves to have their own rights and possibly for them to be free for the better of the country. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Browns raid on Harpers fairy was an effort by the abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a Unites states Arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of Lincoln
Lincoln was gonna help fix state rights. The unites states presidential election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the president and vice president of the Unites States -
Lincoln Inaugural Address
Lincolns first Inaugural Address was Monday march 4th 1861, as a part of him taking oath of office for his first term as the 16th president of the United States. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
It was the bombardent of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States army and the returned gunfire from the Union army started the Civil War.
