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Missouri joins as a slave state so to balance it out Maine joins as a free state. The compromise draws a invisible line at the 36x30 above Arkansas and says anything above the line is free territory. The southern states were unhappy so they made a "law" that any slaves caught in non-slave states were to be returned to their owners. -
NAt Turner started a rebellion for slaves causing fear to spread throughout the south. In the end it killed 60 people and resulted in retaliation for the rebellion attacking slaves that were not involved with the revolution. -
The compromise allowed California to enter as a free state. It made it so all other territories could decide when they applied for state hood if they wanted to be a free or slave state. It made it a crime to help runaway slaves even in the North. Texas agreedd to give up its claims to New Mexico for 10 million which they used to pay off its debt. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book called Uncle Tom's Cabin That spread awareness about Living conditions of slaves in the South to people in the North. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as Bleeding Kansas, as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote. It caused the Democratic Party to lose faith in the North because Democrats were pro-slavery. -
he U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case struck down the Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional, maintaining that Congress had no power to forbid or abolish slavery in the territories. -
John Brown led a small army into a town by the name of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. He was trying to instigate a major slave rebellion by arming slaves, but was caught and hanged for treason. -
Lincoln's election served as the main catalyst of the American Civil War. This election resulted in the first Republican president being elected. The United States had become increasingly sectionally divided during the 1850s, primarily over extending slavery into the Western territories.