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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise created an imbalance between the number of pro/anti-slavery states until the admission of Maine as anti-slavery state. After becoming a pro-slavery state, it allowed for an imaginary line to be drawn dividing the former Louisiana Territory Into pro and anti-slavery divisions. This was ended after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. -
Compromise of 1850
It’s about questioning slavery if they should abominate slavery in Utah, and New Mexico. -
Fugitive Slave law
The Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Kansas Nebraska act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Dred Scott Supreme Court decision
Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a slave (Dred Scott) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States -
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Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
Stephan Douglas an American Politician had the best chance to defeat the “Black Republicans.” They claimed that he was a traitor because of the power he had. They turned against him. The democrats didn’t choose a candidate until 6 weeks after the northern democrats chose Douglas. There was a separate convention which was called “Charleston Convention", and they were trying everything they could to keep Lincoln from becoming president because he was pushing so hard against slavery. -
Battle of Antietam
Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the first battle of the American Civil War to fought to northern Soil. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Was a presidential proclamation which is an statement issued by a president and a executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln -
Battle of gettysburg
A union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. lee's second invasion of the North. -
Abraham Lincoln
He freed the slaves. He the only one with the penny thats brown as well