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The Missouri Crisis (Red)
The differences between northern states and southern states. The differences between free and slave state caused the separation of the country. -
Missouri Compromise (Purple)
Balance Free and Slave States. Drew a line at the southern boundary of Missouri, and the ones in the north are free states. Create sectionalism. -
Underground Railroad (Blue)
It was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19 th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. -
William Garrison Publishes The Liberator (Red)
It is a anti-slavery newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831. Garrison co-published weekly issues of The Liberator from Boston continuously for 35 years, from January 1, 1831, to the final issue of December 29, 1865. -
Nat Turner's Slave Revolt (Red)
Slave rebellion. Hightest number of fatalities caused by any slave unsparing in the south. -
Texas Annexation (Red)
Admitted Texas as a state of the U.S. -
The Wilmot Proviso (Blue)
It was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War. Soon after the war began, President James K. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million as part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty. -
Compromise of 1850 (Red)
California is a free state now. New Mexico and Utah allowed to decline their own slavery law. Slave trade banned in D.C. Fugitive slave law passed. -
Fugitive Slave Law (Red)
It's part of the Compromise of 1850. This controversial measure gave additional powers to slave owners to recapture slaves and angered northerners by requiring them to hunt so-called fugitive slaves. -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Red)
An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Ability to illustrate slavery's effect on families, and to help readers empathize with slaved characters. -
Bleeding Kansas (Red)
A series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern yankees" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861, including "Bleeding Congress". -
Formation of the Republican Party (Blue)
Anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act (Red)
Decide by vote whether or not they want slavery. Stephen Douglas came up with eh idea of allowing Kansas and Nebraska to vote on whether or not here should be slavery. Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery people are killed. -
Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision (Red)
Slaves are not considered as a U.S. citizen. Slaves can't sue on Federal Courts. Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates (Red)
It was the most significant statements in American political history. Its outcome would determine the ability of the Democratic party to maintain unity in the face of the divisive sectional and slavery issues, and some were convinced it would determine the viability of the Union itself. -
John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry (Red)
Effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860 (Red)
Abraham Lincoln won because he had majority of electoral votes. He carried all free states except New Jersey.
