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The legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation. -
A slave named Nat Turner led more than fifty followers in a bloody revolt in Southampton, Virginia, killing nearly 60 white people mostly women and children. -
Stemming from the United States annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nuces River or the Rio Grande. -
It prohibited the expansion of slavery into any territory acquired by the United States from Mexico as a result of the Mexican American War settlement. -
A rapid influx of fortune seekers in California that began after gold was found at Sutters Mill in early 1848 and reached its peak in 1852. -
Harriet Tubman is one of the most well-known of all the underground railroad conductors, during a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. -
Its primary goal was to balance the interests of the slaveholding South and the free North and to prevent the secession of Southern states that could lead to dissolution of the Union. -
The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. -
It tells the story of Uncle Tom, an enslaved person depicted as sanity and dignified, noble, and steadfast in his beliefs. -
There were three political groups in Kansas the pro-slavery, free staters, and the abolitionists. Violence broke out immediately between these opposing factions and continued until 1861 when Kansas entered the Union as a free state. -
The act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. -
The United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. -
Douglas tried to brand Lincoln as a dangerous radical, while Lincoln emphasized the immorality of slavery -
Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. -
American presidential election in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
When Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president the South Carolina legislature perceived a threat.