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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was made in response to the Louisiana Purchase. There was a large, bitter, national debate that was sparked as to whether it should be a slave state or not. Eventually, Congress decided that a deal must be made. They made the Missouri Compromise making Missouri a slave state and admitting Maine as a free state. They also made the 30/36 parallel. It divided north and south as free and slave. In addition to keeping the peace between the two sides of the country, with the ad -
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
In August Nat Turner, a slave in Virginia, began a rebellion that spread through southern Virginia. It has been the most successful slave rebellion in the history of America. Turner and 70 others killed around 60 white people within two days. The militia infantry and artillery removed the threat before it could get any further. Nat Turner saw and inferenced that it was signs from God. Turner’s Rebellion is the bloodiest slave rebellion ever. Fifty-five slaves were tried and executed while almost -
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The Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay and Stephen Douglass managed to create a shaky deal as a last ditch effort to prevent a Civil War. It prevented further expansion of slavery while making the Fugitive Slave Act harsher. It might have made the sectionalism in the country worse because of the fact people who didn’t really believe in slavery were made to participate in it now. -
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a book written and published by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It showed how immoral and brutal slavery was. It sold 300,000 copies in the first year. Abraham Lincoln said himself, “So you’re the little lady who started this war…” It made the South so angry that they banned all copies of it and anything even remotely similar. -
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Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 disregarded parts of The Missouri Compromise. It made it so there was two territories in which the people who lived there got to choose whether it would be a slave or free state. Abolitionists and pro-slavery folks flooded to Kansas and Nebraska in an attempt to change it in their favor. They struggled for five years with at least fifty deaths and the violence shook the nation to the core. I made them lose hope that there was no way to solve the problem peacefull -
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John Brown
In 1856 John Brown, a former minister, went to Pottawattamie Creek and attacked slave families. He believed he was chosen by God to get rid of slavery. He killed 5 slave owners in front of their families before doing the same to the families. This angered the south immensely as many northerners saw him as a hero whereas the south saw him as a murderous mad man. -
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The Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln won and said he would not allow slavery to spread anymore though they could keep it in the states that already had it. The slave states knew that would be the beginning of the end of slavery so in December of 1860, right after he was elected, South Carolina left the US.
