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Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850. This act made it so that "any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a fine". This was the most intresting coversathion of the Compromise of 1850 and caused many abolitionists to increase their efforts against slavery. This act increased the Underground Railroad activity. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's cabin was a best selling novel in 1852. It Changed forever how Americans viewed slavery.It wanted the United States to deliver on the promise of freedom and equality. Destoyed the abolition movement and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War. -
cotton gin
Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri Compromise, which had kept the Union from falling apart for the last thirty-four years. -
Charles Sumner is Attacked by Preston on the Floor of the Senate
When the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was passed,Preston Brooks entered the Senate chamber and attacked Sumner at his desk, which was bolted to the floor. Sumner's legs were pinned by the desk so he could not escape the savage beating. Brooks became an instant hero in the South, and supporters sent him many replacement canes -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.he court decided that all people of African ancestry slaves as well as those who were free could never become citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court -
Lecompton Constitution
Kansas pro-slavery forces held a constitutional convention and drew up the Lecompton Constitution in 1857. The constitution allowed Kansas to be admitted into the union as a slave state. legislators held a citizen’s vote in December and anti-slavery forces, believing that the voting was rigged, -
John Brown Raided Harper's Ferry
On october 17th, Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal.Brown had hopes that the local slave population would join the raid, little did he know that they wouldnt. Brown was taken and sentenced to death. -
Lincoln Elected President
While Abraham Lincoln was running for Presidentry, 6 states including South Carolina said that "they would brake off from the Union if he won". Lincoln and the Republican Party had to make is so that any states joining the Union could not be slave states. -
Westward Expansion
by 1861, then, most of Jefferson's expectations for the Louisiana Purchase had been realized, at least in Oklahoma. Early official and unofficial exploring parties showd that it was a land of natural beauty with a lot of resources. Expeditions proved its value as a barrier to the diffusion of the American population and to the northward expansion of Spanish influence
