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Wilmot Proviso
Government tried to prohibit slavery in the Mexican Cession territory excluding Texas. John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun worked on a compromise between the North and South and to keep the piece they needed to keep the balance between the slave and free states. -
Compromise of 1850
Two terms the North liked was that California was a free state and stopped the slave trade in DC and 2 terms the South liked was they added a fugitive slave law and Utah and New Mexica became slave states. These compromises managed to keep both sides satisfied and prevented a permanet split before the Civil War. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book was suppose to end slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The political result of the Kansas-Nebraska act is that people in the territories could decide for themselves whether their state would allow slavery. People began flooding into Kansas and Nebraska. -
Bleeding Kansas
In Kansas there was a small scale Civil War in Kansas. Bleeding Kansas became the rally cry for the anti-slavery Northerners and the Republican Party. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom and the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans weren't citizens and couldn't sue because slaves were property. This increased tension between the Northern and Southern states. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln and Douglas were running for Senator of Illinois. Douglas won the election for Senator, but Lincoln became famous -
Harper's Ferry
In Virginia there was a raid on Herper's Ferry and John Brown led it and seized federal arsenal. He did it to stir up a save revolt and end slavery and failed, but became a martyr in the cause of slavery. -
Election of 1860
The next Presidential Election and they voted depending on the section of the country they lived in. Jefferson David was elected for their president. -
Fort Sumpter
Fort Sumptor was the name of the first battle. The South opened fire April 12th, 1861 and the union had to surrender.
