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The Missouri Compromise
Missouri asked to enter the United States as a slave state, which northern congressmen opposed. Maine asked to join the U.S at the same time, so congress decided that Missouri could be a slave state if Maine was a free state. They then divided the United States in half so that if a state entered the northern half of the U.S, they would be free, but if they entered the southern half, they would be slave. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act required all citizens to help catch and turn in runaway slaves. If anyone refused to do so, they were fined 1000 dollars and arrested. The Fugitive Slave Act also ddestroyed any legal protection African-Americans had. Anyone could now be accused of being a runaway and taken to the government, who sent them to slavery. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin-1
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a bestselling novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that told how it was really like to be a slave. It changed how a lot of people viewed slavery. People who supported slavery viewed it as propoganda. -
Bleeding Kansas
Northern abolitionists and pro-slavery southerners fought a lot over whether Kansas would be a slave or free state. There were many murders and beatings. The fighting ended when both sides agreed to stop fighting in 1859. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave who moved to free states with his master. Scott was forced to move back to Missouri with his master, where his master died. Scott sued for his freedom, saying that he lived on free soil for a long time, which made him free. The case went to the Supreme Court where Scott lost, setting African-American rights back even more and adding more tensions between the North and the South. -
Harper's Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown tried to take the United States Armory and Arsenal in Harper's Ferry Virginia. He had 22 followers. 10 of them died during the raid. Brown was executed and the northern aabolitionists used him as a matyr, saying he was killed because the government supported slavery. -
Abraham Lincoln Elected President-2
Lincoln ran against three different democratic candidates. He did not win the election on popular vote but had the most electorral votes. He won all of the states above the Mason-Dixon line and California and Oregon. However, he did not win a single slave state.
