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Wanted to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession territory out West
Proviso didn’t pass -
Admission of CA as a free state
Slaves being sold in DC (Near our Capital representing Freedom!)
Utah & New Mexico being admitted as slave states
Fugitive Slave Laws during this time -
Law passed in 1850 to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.
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Story calling for an end to slavery.
North decided: Slavery is horrible, cruel and unacceptable. South felt like it was: Yankee Abolitionist -
Law passed to try to solve the problem of slavery.
People in the territories could decide for themselves whether their state would allow slavery. -
small scale civil war in Kansas
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Dred Scott was a slave that sued for his freedom after briefly living with his owner on free soil in the North.
African Americans were not citizens and could not sue. Slaves were property.
This judgment increased the tension between the Northern and Southern states. -
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglass were running for Senator of Illinois in 1858, and they debated slavery.
Lincoln lost the election, but became nationally famous. -
John Brown and his followers seized the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.
Plan=stir up a slave revolt in Virginia and end slavery.
It didn't work. -
The voters in 1860 voted mostly based on which section of the country they lived in.
Those in the North voted for Lincoln, the South voted for Breckinridge. -
