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The Missouri Comprimise
In 1820, Henry Clay created the Missouri Comprimise. The Missouri Comprimise was to create balance between the slave states and free states, since Maine instisted to become a free state. Maine wanting to become a free state Missouri became a slave state too, to equal the states. -
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Events leading to the Civil War
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Nullification Crisis
Around Febuary 1833 the South and South Carolina had finally had enough of the recent tariff placed. South Carolina wasn't statisfied with the tariff reduction in 1832. South Carolina placed the Nullification Law in 1833 which meant they didn't need to follow the tariff. Jefferson sent troops in to reforce the law, but South carolina was ready to fight with their militia and even threatened to leave the Union. Congress frightened from war reduced the tariff even more. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 granted California into the Union as a free state, making sure there was no imbalance the two territories the Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory were given the vote to pick which part of the Union they were. -
Bleeding Kansas
In response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act Kansas was put into warfare among itself. The event was lead by John Brown, an extreme abolitionist. John Brown killed five people to begin the unrest until 1861 in which Kansas joined the North. -
Dred Scott Case
A man of the name Dred Scott faced a trial were he was either sentenced as free or as a slave. Dred Scott travelled place to place with his owner, but two of the places were free states. This meant that he was free, but others thought that he wasn't and that African Americans aren't citizens anyway. The trial eventually came to an end freeing Dred Scott from his next owner causing the south angry with this. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Stephen Douglas, the creator of the Nebraska-Kansas Act was running for reelection. Douglas was going up against the Republican congressman Abraham Lincoln. Both had different outlooks on the North and South especially slavery. -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
On October 16th, 1859 John Brown leader of Bleeding Kansas once again, started rebellions against the South. Brown and 21 raiders planned attacking a weapons stockpile and would distribute the weapons to enslaved African Americans to rebel. -
Election of 1860
On November 6th, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Lincoln ran for the Rebublicans, John C. Breckinridge ran for the Southern Democrats, Stephen Douglas for the Northern Democrats, and the new party the Constitutional Union had John Bell. Lincoln was the only president solidly against slavery. -
South Carolina Secession
In response to the 1860 election many pro-slavery states threatened they'd leave the Union if Abraham Lincoln was electioned. On December 20th, 1860 South Carolina was the first state to leave the Union and form the Confederacy.
