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Bleeding Kansas
Kansas had to decide whether to be free or not, advocates and abolitionists fought over the status of the soon-to-be state. Showed that violence was going to be prevalent until the verdict. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Opened Kansas up to settling, and showed through bleeding Kansas that only war could solve the issue of slavery. It also said that popular sovereignty should be how the new settlers--from both sides-- should decided. -
Pottawattame Creek
Even more violence over the issue of slavery. John Brown, an abolitionist, led an attack on some pro-slave people and killed 5. He was one of the people affected by the sacking of lawrence (two abolitionist news paper offices were destroyed) and wanted revenge -
Dred Scott vs Sanford
This case decided that slaves were to be considered property. This angered northern abolitionists, contributing to sectionalism. -
Panic of 1857
The southern economy took little damage whereas the north was hit hard. Sectionalism between the two regions was increased due to the reliance that the south thought the north had on its agrarian society -
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
These were a series of seven debates about slavery in the united states. These debates angered people of both sides and the eventual election of Lincoln made the south boil. -
Presidential Election
Abraham Lincoln was elected and was a known Anti-slavery advocate. This showed that the north fully supported abolition and tensions between them and the south increased.
