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The compromise allowed Missouri to become the 24th state of America, but citizens were not allowed to own and trade slaves. This compromise caused a lot of tension between slave owners and antislavers since they had to spend over an hour arguing over this since they originally couldn't come to a consensus. In the end the North/anti-slavers were able to win and forbid slaves to be owned in Missouri.
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Senator Henry Clay created a set of resolutions to create a compromise between the North and South allowing ease of tensions. In the end, Henry Clay ended the resolution by abolishing the slave trade in Washington DC and amending the Fugitive Slave Act.
This compromise gave an advantage to both sides since for the North they were able to abolish slavery in the US capital while for the South they were now able to take back the escaped slaves that ran away to the Northern states. -
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a novel later turned book created by Harriet Stowe that showed the horrors of the slave trade from the perspective of a slave. This horrified many readers and started making them question is if slavery was the right thing.
Due to the controversy of the novel the North were able to justify their belief to abolish slavery while silencing some who opposed them. In the case of the South, they ended up enraged by the novel and its depictions. -
Bleeding Kansas was a series of conflicts over the legitimacy of slavery in Kansas. The event involved many elections, raids, and even a single state civil war.
The conflict went on for both sides for many years, but in the end, the one still fighting was the South. This resulted in the South ultimately winning and slavery being allowed in the state until the end of the US Civil War. -
The act repealed the Missouri compromise and gave the states more sovereignty by allowing them to vote is if they want to allow slavery or not. This also created two new US territories which later become known as states.
The act seemed to be quite balanced for both sides since either side could decide is if they wanted slavery or not; however, even allowing for there to be slavery in states like Missouri means that the South and pro-slavers ultimately won. -
The Ostend Manifesto involved three US diplomats trying to persuade William L. Marcy to seize Cuba from Spain, but only if the purchase doesn't fall through. It ultimately didn't fall through, but the US didn't try to seize Cuba; however, the document got released so they called it a Manifesto so it'd be more appealing to the South.
Neither side really had gained anything from this event. However, this did start to plant ideas on both sides. -
The event involved Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Summer with a walking cane due to Charles having an anti-slavery speech a few days earlier that insulted slaveholders. As a result of this Charles was badly injured and caused people to start coming to question is if people should even be trusted to own slaves is if someone like Preston owned some.
This massively helped the North due to now making it seem like slave owners were dangerous people and you shouldn't own slaves. -
His case was one that had the US Supreme Court decided that even though Dred Scott was a freed slave in a state that forbids slavery he doesn't have rights and no African American will ever have rights. Another part of this had them state that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
Due to this decision, the US Supreme Court got into controversy especially those from the South since there are many who believed that people had the right to decide if slavery was allowed or not. -
These debates had Douglas try to make Lincoln out to be a radical while Lincoln debated over having true equality. These debates ended with Douglas's victory, but 46 republican representatives in the US senate.
These debates were ultimately a victory for the North since they were used two years later to help with his presidential campaign. This campaign would soon lead to an abolishment of slavery resulting in the North's victory. -
John Brown and his 21 supporters stormed Harpers Ferry armory to obtain weapons for their cause against slavery however this resulted in the death of all 22 of them. Due to this event, the South and North started having a conflict with each other about who's fault it was for this event.
This wasn't a victory for each side since this event ultimately led to the Civil War starting. While the Civil War ended with the North's victory, but it had more losses than needed. -
Lincoln won the 1860 election with 40% of the vote making him the 14th president of the US. Due to the South not wanting Lincoln to be their leader since he was pro-equality and antislavery they left the Union and became the Confederacy.
This event would lead to Lincoln abolishing slavery after the Civil War, but since the South left the North and even started the war shows that neither side won in this event. -
In December after Lincoln wins the election South Carolina votes to secede the Union since they don't want Lincoln as the leader nor want to lose slavery. This starts a movement of proslavery states seceding from the Union and forming the Confederacy.
This would be a victory for the South since they were successfully able to leave the North and not lose their beliefs. The downside to this is that due to forming a new nation in opposition of the North they started the Civil War conflict.