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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise rose to a boiling point after Missouri's request to enter the union as a slave state; disbalancing the power between free and slave states.
In an order to keep peace, congress made a two part compromise that allowed Missouri to become a slave state; however, it would admit maine as a free state.
The Compromise also detirmened an imaginary line that set the boundaries between northern free states and southern slave states. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a bloody rebellion that left Virginia in fear, along with southern states who endorce slavery.
Dozens of slave owners were murdered in order to support his rebellion's cause.
This praticular rebellion influenced civil war because of the casualties represented that of what could happen in the future (nothern pov). -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 set a intenable status between the northern free states and the southern slave states.
The Compromise was created to detirmine the newly added states as free; along with the abolishment of the slave trade in Washington D.C.
In exchange, the south recieved an amendment to the Fugitive slave act; increasing the strictness of the north to return escaped slaves back.
This angered the Northern free states and many refused to follow; creating more tension between the states. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas; a period of violence that appeared during the settling of the Kansas territory. The Kansas-Nebraska act broke the Missouri Compromise’s boundary between slave and free territory; however, instead the use of popular sovereignty forced the residents instead to determine if it were a free or a slave area; thus releasing a mini civil war in the Kansas Territory, and adding more fuel to the cause of the civil war. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
April 12, 1861, Beauregard (general) sent Anderson (major) a message informing him they would fire in an hour if they didn’t surrender. Anderson refused and thus, firing began, creating the first battle of the civil war. The South bombed all sides of the fort, and after Anderson realized he couldn’t win because of the lack of food, ammunition, and the outnumbered troops, he surrendered the fort to the South. -
Dred Scott V. Sanford
Dred Scott, a former slave who sought his freedom though legal exceptions was summoned to court in 1857, denied his sought over freedom with the detirmination that ‘No African American blood, was or could ever be a citizen.’ The decision, invalidated the Missouri Compromise, in which placed restrictions on slavery in certain U.S. territories. This example Outraged Northern abolitionists, thus heating the situation over an American civil war. -
Abraham Lincoln's Election
During the Election of 1860, the elected president Abraham Lincoln was thought to be a good margin for both North and Southern states, depsite not many votes towards him on the southern ballots. Lincoln's republican views towards anti-slavery struck fear into the southern states, thus leading to the succession of South Carolina, and six more to follow.
