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1850 The Compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive slave Act
The Compromise of 1850 which became largely disputed within the northern free states. Also, The Fugitive Slave Act specified that citizens of free states were required to return slaves found in the North. The Act also denied a fugitive's right to a jury trial. The Congress in an effort to settle regional disagreements over the state of American slavery. The gap between North and South and those living in free or slave states was widening and soon would lead to the start of the Civil War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act took away the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories. And allowed for popular jurisdictions in Missouri . It also produced a violent uprising known as Bleeding Kansas. As proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote. The passage intensified the bitter debate over slavery in the United States, which would later explode into the Civil War. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was like a small civil war between pro slavery and anti slavery.Also, thousands of North and South people came to the new created Kansas Territory.Many of them intended to prevent slavery at all costs and help out where every they could.But violence broke out because thousands of pro-slavery men migrated to the area along the others. So, this led to the Civil War because it led to the established of the Republican Party. This change which led to the collapse of the old two-party. -
Dred Scott VS Standford
Sandford is a landmark case announced by the Supreme Court of the United States. Which also ruled that Africa American people were not United States citizens. As a result Africa Americans were not afforded government or court protection. And Congress could no longer ban slavery from a federal territory or protect them. The court case fueled tensions between the North and the South that eventually led to the American Civil War. -
Preston brooks VS Charles Sumner
The Beating of Charles Sumner or it’s also know as the Brooks Sumner Affair occurred in the United States Senate chamber. When Representative Preston Brooks a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner. Who was pro-slavery Republican from Massachusetts. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates. Between Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois and Senator Stephen Douglas the Democratic Party candidate. Douglas was disturbed by Lincoln's effort to resolve a controversial moral question by political means, warning that it could lead to civil war. -
John browns Raid on Harper Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry Virginia. Which is now West Virginia in an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people. And to also destroy the institution of slavery. Although the raid failed it inflamed sectional tensions. Brown's raid helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible and it became an important impetus of the Civil War. -
Élection of Abraham Lincoln
The 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago nominated Lincoln. A moderate former one term Whig Representative from Illinois. Its platform promised not to interfere with slavery in the South but opposed extension of slavery into the territories.The Election of 1860 demonstrated the divisions within the United States just before the Civil War. Lincoln his election served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the Civil War.