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Missouri Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
.This was one of the things that lead to the civil war because it made the North and South were angry because it stayed even instead of one becoming more powerful because it has one more slave state or free state. The north and south were also angry because none of them got more power -
Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law
The Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law made it so that If there is a fugitive slave you cannot houses or he know if somebody's house in the Fugitive Slave you have to contact authorities.This rose tensions between the north and south -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
bill destined to be one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in our national history. Ostensibly a bill “to organize the Territory of Nebraska,” an area covering the present-day states of Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, and the Dakotas, contemporaries called it “the Nebraska bill.” Today, we know it as the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. iIt was one of the main causes of the civil war. -
Dred Scott decision 1875
The Dred scott decision was when a slave named Dred scott sued the family who owned him for his freedom, he did not win.The north was angry about this