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The Missouri Crisis
(Red) The Missouri Crisis was a "financial panic" that speak across the United States. Unemployment rates were up, banks were failing, mortgages were being foreclosed, and agricultural prices were falling at drastic rates. Throughout this crisis, arguments about slavery arose, and created an issue involving Missouri becoming a state. Current laws did not apply to territory wear of the Mississippi. -
Missouri Compromise of 1820
(Blue)The Missouri Compromise was agreed to by both the southern and northern states. It was an attempt to maintain balance between slave free states and slave states. It banned slavery north and west of the Ohio river. Made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state. -
William Garrison Publishes the Liberator
(Red) The Liberator was a publication that talked about the moral ills of slavery. Pro-slavery supporters were very angry about this publication because more people began to join the anti-slavery group. -
Nat Turner's Slave Revolt
(Red) Nat Turner's slave rebellion was a rebellion that took place in Southampton county, Virginia. Rebel slaves killed between 55 and 65 people, the largest number of fatalities in any slave revolt. -
Texas Annexation
(Red) The Texas Republic was recognized in 1837 due to a thrive in texan culture because of the settlement of many Americans in the region north of the Rio Grande. Texas wanted to become a part of the United States, southern states were in favor while northern states were not, because Texas would be a slave state. This was the greatest territorial expansion of the United States. -
The Wilmot Proviso
(Red) The Wilmot Proviso was designed to abolish slavery within the land that was gained during the Mexican War. -
Compromise of 1850
(Blue) The compromise of 1850 defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War. This helped to settle the disputes about the territories obtained during the Mexican- American War. -
Fugitive Slave Law
(Blue) This law was created because the number of slaves escaping southern States was increasing rapidly. It compelled people to capture runaway slaves in Northern states and return them to their rightful owners. -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
(Red) Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel written by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. This novel increased tension because it personalized the political and economic arguments about slavery. -
Underground Railroad
(Red) The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses formed by Harriet Tubman. It was used by enslaved people in efforts to escape to free states. This network angered the southerners because people were helping free their slaves or their property. -
Formation of the Republican Party 1854
(Red) The formation of the Republican party in 1854 started when Anti-slavery Wigs met in the upper-midwest states of Wisconsin and established a political party that opposed the spread of slavery. It created more supporters of the anti-slavery party. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
(Blue) The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people that resigned in territories of Kansas and Nebraska to personally decide whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. This led to pro-slave and anti-slave groups trying to settle in Kansas and soon erupted in violence. -
Bleeding Kansas
(Red) Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations between pro and anti-slavery groups. It was the beginning of serious physical harm involving the pro and anti-slavery disagreement. Stops when Kansas becomes a state. -
Dredd Scott Supreme Court Decision
(Blue) This supreme court decision was made, and it affirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories. The decision inflamed regional tensions between the Northern and Southern states. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
(Red) The Lincoln Douglas Debates began on August 21 and lasted until October 15. Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were fighting for a seat in the Senate. They battled in face to face debates around the state. They were held at 7 locations throughout Illinois. -
John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry
(Red) This raid was an effort by the white abolitionist John Brown, to initiate an armed slave revolt by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He seized the federal armory and arsenal and fought against slavery. -
Election of 1860
(Red) In the election of 1860 Lincoln defeated southern democrats for the presidency. The southern slave states feared that Lincoln would repeal slavery.
