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Missouri Compromise (1)
The Missouri Compromise was led by Henry Clay. It was a dispute between North and South America, where the people were arguing over Maine and Missouri. One of them would be a slave state and the other would be a free state. The people of the North didn't want America to become a slave country, and the South thought their economy depended on slavery. So the goal
was to make it even, or more free states than slave states.
Primary source:
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Missouri Compromise (2)
The link from the previous "Slide" was a copy of the bill that had put the Missouri Compromise into play. It had stated what the Missouri Compromise would do, and how it would be done. -
Wilmot Proviso (1)
This was created by the Congressman David Wilmot. It was introduced as a bill intended to eliminate slavery from any land that was won through the Mexican-American War. The South, of course, hated this idea, because it would mean that slavery would be unable to grow. Slavery would need to be confined to the places it was already in, without any sort of movement. This bill had limited slavery from spreading faster throughout the country. -
Wilmot Proviso (2)
Primary Source:
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/wilmot-proviso/
This was the final copy of the Wilmot Proviso that was sent out to the people of the United States. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was introduced by Henry Clay to make the North and South more cooperative with each other. It had abolished slave trade for the second time in US History, and put the Fugitive Slave act into place. It had seemed like a good idea at first, but ended up backfiring.
Primary source:
https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=022/llcg022.db&recNum=331
This was the document used by Henry Clay to introduce the Compromise to the rest of the government. -
Fugitive Slave act (2)
The people who might have seen an African American and didn't report it, they would most likely be fined. The north had hated this rule.
Primary Source:
http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/documents_us/fugitive_slave_act.htm
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Fugitive Slave Act (1)
The Fugitive Slave act was introduced in the Compromise of 1850 for the South's side of the Compromise. It was made by Henry Clay, and it allowed anyone from the South to accuse an African American of the North to have escaped from slavery in the South. If a person were accused of this, they were forced to go to the South to be a slave, weather or not they were a legal slave. People of the North would need to report if they saw an African American walking down the street. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book about what happened in slave plantations, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book had caused a lot of controversy, but it had really opened up people's eyes on the cruelty and terribleness of slavery. The south had tried to tell the north that everything was wrong, that it was all just propaganda. Not many people had believed this. This book was a contribution to what led to the civil war. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, or Bleeding Kansas, was when the North and South were trying to make Kansas a state that follows their beliefs. The South wanted it to be a slave state, the North was the opposite. Both sides would move their families out of whatever state it was that they were living in, and go into Kansas, hence the name of bleeding Kansas. If you lived in Kansas, then you were able to vote for weather the state was to be a slave state or not. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act (2)
Primary source:
https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=010/llsl010.db&recNum=298
This was when the act was signed in, and the two states became a part of the US. -
Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott Case involved Dred Scott who was a black slave. DRed scott wanted to argue for what he believed in and so he did. This event took place in the U.S. Supreme Court. This took place because he was tired of slavery and didn't think racism was right. This event impacted our history because it made people see that they could fight for what they believed in but it was also one of the events that lead up to the Civil War. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
The Lincoln Douglas was a heated political debate, between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln, over slavery. This debate took place in Illinois in 1858. This event took place because they needed a candidate for the election, Abraham Lincoln was a republican and Douglas was a democrat. https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/debates.htm -
John Brown's Raid
This event involves John brown, who is an abolitionist, and he wanted to end slavery. Even though John Brown was against slavery, the way John Brown wanted to help out end slavery was not right. http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/failure-compromise/resources/john-brown%E2%80%99s-final-speech-1859 -
Election of 1860
The Election of 1860 involves Lincoln and Douglass. They were both running for the election but they were both running for different reasons. Lincoln wanted to stop slavery while Douglass was not for slavery but he supported it because he recognized the southerners needed slaves. The election of 1860 impacted our history by electing Lincoln as president and leaving many southerners angry, leading up to the southern secession. -
Lincoln’s Election of 1860
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Southern Secession
The event involves Southern States. South Carolina wanted to secede the United States because they did not want Lincoln to be president. South Carolina, along with many other southerner states, did not want Lincoln to stop slavery. This event took place in the south where South Carolina wanted to become its own country and govern itself. This event made a huge impact in our history because this is what broke everything and what mainly caused the Civil War leaving millions to die. -
