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A 'neccessary Evil'
caused division amongst North & South states
Forced Labor -
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Missouri became a slave state
Maine entered the Union as a Free State
A boundry was set called the 36' 30" Parallel: North no slavery, South allowed by popular soveriegnty -
Sued on basis that since he was moved to a non-slave territory that he was no more a slave.
HE lost on technicallity that stated he was propery an since he was owned didnt have human rights.
Cse violated Compromise of 1820 -
California enters as a free state
End of slave trade in Washington D.C
poular soveriegnty in Utah & New Mexico -
Republicans held ground to not allow slavery in teriories
Republican voted to office in 1860
Know also as Free Soilers & the Know Knothing Party -
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
showed the horrors of slavery in fictional plantation story.
The North loved it v. the South banning the book. -
Popular Soveriegnty put to question of slavery in the new territories
Missoui Compromise is violated
Pro and anti abolistionists rush to vote on the issue to prohibit or aallow slavey. -
The fight between abolistionists and southerners for the issue of slavery in Kansas.
Many died.
Henry Clay died So it was up to Senator Stephen Douglas to work a compromise -
Congressional debate upon slavery
Lincoln said no slavew expansion
Douglas said erase it all. -
John Brown and his five sons took the arsenal but toppled military
Slaves did not assist in his revolt thus its failure to keep the arms.
John Brown is a radical abolistionist and a marytar in the North. -
South Carolina is the 1st state to sucede from the Union
Many others follow in Febuary 1861
Based upon Lincoln's election to presidency -
1st shots fired in official civil war
Confederacy tries to raid it for arms.
Lincoln allowed it to be taken. -
CSA forms
LIncoln sends army in response to attack on Fort Sumter
Led 1st battle of civil war. Bull Run