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Missouri Compromise
tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country. They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. -
Compromise of 1850
Slave states could not decided which state to make a slave state so the drew a line and made the north free states and south slave states -
Kansas and Nebrascka act
This 1854 bill to organize western territories became part of the political whirlwind of sectionalism and railroad building, splitting two major political parties and helping to create another, as well as worsening North-South relations. -
Bleeding Kansas
In opposition to the fraudulently elected pro-slavery legislature of Kansas, the Kansas Free State forces set up a governor and legislature under their Topeka Constitution, a document that outlaws slavery in the territory. -
John Browns Raid
Abolitonlist John Brown leads a small group on a raid agaist a federal army Harppers Ferry,Virginia in attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy th institution of slavery -
Sumner and Brooks Incedent
Brooks became an instant hero in the South, and supporters sent him many replacement canes. He was vilified in the North and became a symbol of the stereotypically inflexible, uncompromising representative of the slave power. The incident exemplified the growing hostility between the two camps in the prewar years.
