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The Compromise of 1850 included the Fugitive Slave Act, which became largely disputed within the northern free states. The Fugitive Slave Act stipulated that citizens of free states were required to return slaves found in the North. a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people within the territory of the United States.
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A law made by Kansas and Nebraska territory. This act reversed the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery in the remainder of the original areas of the Louisiana Purchase. The balance of power shifted in the government and across the land.
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The period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. Produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists.
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a decade-long fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man named Dred Scott. The case persisted through several courts and ultimately reached the U.S.
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Lincoln-Douglas debates, series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign, largely concerning the issue of slavery extension into the territories.
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John Brown couple of men down the road to Harpers Ferry in what is today West Virginia. The plan was to take the town's federal armory and, ultimately, ignite a nationwide uprising against slavery. The raid failed, but six years later, Brown's dream was realized and slavery became illegal.
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Lincoln won in a four way contest and became the 16th President of the United States during a national crisis that would tear states and families apart and test Lincoln’s leadership and resolve: The Civil War. The main issue of the election was slavery and states’ rights.
