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Missouri Compromise
The North and the south grew into sectionalism. The Missouri compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states in the senate -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American and owned by an army doctor in Missouri when the family moved to a the free state of Illinois Dred Scott thought he should be free in the free state but the court said no. -
The Compromise of 1850
President Taylor applied for California to be a free state. Antislavery forces wanted to band slavery in Washington D.C., witched started a new law. This law required for states to return fugitives ( runaway slaves). -
The Kansas Nebraska act
Franklin Pierce was from New Hampshire and he was a democrat. Pierce was president in 1853 started fugitive slave act.1854 senator A. Douglas from Illinois who forged the compromise of 1850 presented a bill in congress.Douglas hoped to expand the nation on both north and south. Douglas new that the states would fight over if Kansas and Nebraska where free or slave states.Douglas though of Popular Sovereignty with allowed the people of the state to decide on if it would be a free or slave state -
Bleeding Kansas
both sides had were armed. 800 slavery supporters attacked the town of Lawrence they destroyed the Free State hotel and two newspaper offices.John Brown thought that he could end slavery. brown lead a group of people down the Pottawatomie creek where he seized and killed five people that where for slavery. Newspapers called Kansas bleed Kansas after this act. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Douglas was not a popular as Lincoln. Lincoln challenged him in many debates. met seven times over the span of three months in 1858. the seven debates where all about slavery. Lincoln talked to Douglas about popular sovereignty. Douglas response about popular sovereignty pleased antislavery people but disliked in southern states. Douglas won a narrow victory against Lincoln on the election. -
raid on harpers fairy
John Brown lead a group of abolitionist on a raid of harpers ferry. the target of John Brown was an arsenal.his hope was to arm enslaved people.John Browns raid was a fail local citizens and troops took them down. John Brown was hung for his actions. after johns death the nation was on the edge of a disaster. -
Election of Lincoln
slavery split the Democratic party. north nominated Stephen Douglas ,and the south John C. Breckinridge. republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln. south was scared if Lincoln won it would encouraged slave revolt. Lincoln won because the democrats had to pic between two and republics only had one option .south debated the question of secession with is the withdraw from the union leaders in congress worked frantically to fashion a compromise. -
Lincolns Inaugural address
Lincoln won election but he wasn't president yet the last president James Buchanan's term didn't end until march 4 1861. James said that southern states had no right to leave the union in December of 1860. in his address Lincoln talked about seceding states directly mixed. he spoke tough but with kind words of piece. -
Attack on fort sumter
Lincoln didn't wan't to start a war. If confederates kept the forts it would give them the right to secede (withdraw formally from membership in a federal union.) day after Lincoln went into office he got a message from the commander from fort Sumter saying that they where low on supplies. Confederates demanded that the people at fort Sumter would surrender. Lincoln sent messages to governor Francis Pickens from South Carolina saying he was sending a unarmed troop with supplies to the fort
