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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise let Missouri enter the country as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also created the 36 30 north parallel line. This line seperated the North and the South, free and slave states. With this Compromise put in place, seperated the country even more with slave stats and non-slave states. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was 5 laws all mashed up into 1 big bill. The 5 laws were that California enters the country as a free state, the South fights and gets the new slave act. Also the federal judges were given a certain amount of money if they declared a slave free, or if they declared him as a fugitive. Another one is that the New Mexico territory was open to slavery. This divided the country even more than it aleady was, and created tension. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Wikipedia The Fugitie Slave Act really divided the country because the law said that slave fugitives could not testify on their own behalf in court. With that being said, this was unfair to slaves that they could not speak for themselves. This law was part of the Compromise of 1850. The person who brought in the slave fugitive was awarded $5 if it was in favor of the fugitive, and $10 if it was in favor of the claimant. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, about anti-slavery. Stowe was an abolitionist. This book was known as the groundwork of the Civil War. The novel was based on stereotypes about black people, it also depicts how poorly slaves were treated and that there needed to be an end to it. Abraham Lincoln is famous for his quote" So, this is the little lady who started this great war." It shows the sectionalism the country had at the time on how people saw blacks. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act, created the territories of both Kansas and Nebraska. Both of these states were open to slavery, but let popular sovereignty decide. The problem with this, was that these new territories needed to be occupied. Therefore, both pro- and anti- slavery people came, and that errupted into a bloody war known as "Bleeding Kansas". This was one of the bigger parts leading up to the Civil War. -
Dred Scott vs Sanford
Dred Scott was a slave that was being sold to an Army Captain by his Master's wife. He tried to buy his freedom from her after he had been moved with them to a free state, but Scott was denied. Therefore, Scott tried to sue for his freedom but in a 7-2 decision against him. This is a huge example of sectionalism because slaves were not citizens, so they did not have the right to sue against anybody. -
Election of 1860
This election was known as the last event that tiggered the Civil War. When Abraham Lincoln won the presidency without getting a single vote from the Southern States, they believed that they had no voice. Of course, Lincoln did not like slavery and thought it was cruel and evil. With the South not giving Lincoln a single vote, showed that the country was divided at the time, and needed a way to be fixed. Lincolns opponents were John Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas.
