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Missouri Crisis
Missouri wanted to become a free state. (Red - Increased) The South and the North increased issue between the continual confrontation of free states and slave states. -
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Compromise agreed to by both slave states and free states.
Passed as a law in 1820, after rising in 1817-1819. (Blue - Decreased) Both states agreed, causing no issues. -
William Garrison Publishes The Liberator
The Liberator was an anti-slavery newspaper that earned nationwide notoriety for its uncompromising advocacy of "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves" in the United States. (Red- Increased) The published newspaper about antislavery caused an uprising from the South. -
Nat Turner's Slave Revolt
Slave Rebellion led by Nat Turner. Rebel slaves killed 55-65 people total, the highest number caused by any slave uprising in the South. (Red - Increased) The South was furious after slaves killed people. -
The Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48).
(Red - Increased) The South was infuriated, with the effort to eliminate slavery at all. -
Texas Annexation of 1844
The 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the U.S., which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state. (Red - Increased) The North was against this, because Texas was a slave state. -
Compromise of 1850
A package of five separate bills passed by the U.S. Congress which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War. (Red - Increased) Threatened the balance of power in the Senate, and later caused battle in New territories by making the decision of slavery the citizens responsibility. -
Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the U.S. Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. (Blue - Decreased) A part of the Compromise of 1850, threatening the balance of power in the Senate. -
Underground Railroad
(1850-60). A network of secret routes and safe houses used by African's enslaved in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. (Red - Increased) The South did not want their slaves to escape from their masters. -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin told the horrors of slavery and rose the animosity between the North and South. Publication was a sensational success and sold more than 300,000 copies in the first year. (Red- Influenced) The novel influenced the North's emotional about slavery, and gave more reason to oppose it. -
Formation of the Republican Party 1854
Meeting held in Wisconsin, generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. (Blue - Decreased) This decreased the tension because the South wasn't involved. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820. (Red - Increased) It served to repeal the Compromise of 1820, which created balance for both free and slave states, causing an uprising. -
Bleeding Kansas
(1855-61). Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the U.S. involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "southern yankees" elements in Kansas. (Red- Increased) Issues being efforted to resolve through violence confrontations. -
Dredd Scott Supreme Court Decision
Slave Scott, who had resided in a free state was decided to be not entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States. (Red - Increased) The North was infuriated with the disrespect to African slaves, not being characterized as true U.S. citizens. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
Stephen Douglas supported the Dred Scott decision, and Lincoln opposed it. Douglas believed in popular sovereignty for the new territories and Lincoln was against allowing slavery to expand west. Douglas won the debates. (Red- Increased) The North was with Lincoln, and the South was with Douglas. -
John Brown's Raid At Harper's Ferry
An effort by an abolitionist to get weapons to give to slaves for an uprising against their masters. He was unsuccessful but he was considered later a hero by the North. (Red - Increased) The South was mad because their slaves were trying to become disrespectful to their masters. The North supported. -
Election of 1860
Candidates were Douglas, Bell, Breckinridge, and Lincoln. Lincoln won the election because the democratic party split into 2 factions. (Red - Increased) The Southern states wanted Breckinridge to win, but Lincoln won because he was an abolitionist.
