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The Three-Fifths Compromise (during the Constitutional Convention)
At the time of the Constitutional Convention, the North and the South were in a heated arguement regarding whether or not slaves should be counted for the total population for the Electoral College, and for taxes. It was eventually decided upon that slaves would count for three-fifths of a person. -
The Missouri Compromise
The South was trying to get Missouri admitted as a slave state, but Congress wanted the number of slave states and free states to be equal, and it already was due to the admission of Alabama as a slave state. Fortunately, however, Maine, then part of Massachusetts wanted to become their own free state, so Congress tied the two proposals together. In addition, the unorganized land territories and the Arkansas territory were split into territories where slavery was illegal and legal, respectively. -
The Nat Turner Rebellion
In Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led many black slaves in a rebellion against white Southerners. It had the largest number of white casualties of any slave rebellion in the American South. -
The Fugitive-Slave Act
As a compromise between the Southern slaveholders and Northern 'free-soilers', the Fugitive-Slave Act decreed that runaway slaves, upon capture, were to be returned to their slaveowners. -
Dred Scott vs. Stanford
This case was first argued on Feb. 11, 1956-Feb. 14, 1856, and was reargued on Dec. 15, 1856- Dec. 18, 1856. -
John Brown's Rebellion
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
