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The Louisiana Purchase
Land purchased from France in 1803 that doubled the size of the United States.
This first instance when slavery became an issue over who would be free and who would be slave. -
The Missouri Compromise
In 1820, there were 11 free states and 11 slave states in the United States. When Missouri applied for statehood, it upset the balance between free and slave states. Senator Henry Clay proposed the Missouri Compromise which would admit Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. As part of the Missouri Compromise, Congress drew an imaginary line at latitude 36,30 N and slavery would be permitted in the Louisiana Purchase south of this line. -
The Admission of California
North gets:
1. California as a free state
2. Ends selling slaves in D.C.
South Gets:
1. Stricter enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
2. Utah and New Mexican territories will use * popular sovereignty (voting) to decide slavery -
The Compromise of 1850
Devised by Henry Clay - California was free state, stricter Fugitive Slave Law, ended Slave Trade in Washington D.C. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
An 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe written to show the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. -
The Dred Scott Decision
A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen. -
John Brown's Raid
An attempt by abolitionist John Brown to cause a slave rebellion by seizing a weapons arsenal; however, it failed since no slaver knew about it. Caused south to believe northern abolitionists were all radical and militant.
