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This was a law that was made by Congress, where if you had found a slave in the north you would have to return them to their slave owner. This angered a lot of people because they believed that they shouldn't be their responsibility. At this time a lot of slaves were trying to escape the south and go to the north because they wanted to be free. This penalized the northerners that found the slaves. -
The event involves all the slave owners, and the slaves of course. What this event is, is when people wanted to turn states into ¨free¨ states. Something that people were trying to do was slowly end slavery because they didn´t believe it was right. The north was more towards this belief, but the south was mainly against it for many reasons. They wanted to keep their slaves in the south because they were the ones that would do their hard labor. -
This event was made to try and prevent slavery. But the southerners at this time were trying to spread slavery, mainly towards the west. The northerners feared this and needed it to stop. But the southerners didn´t want to totally end slavery because that would really impact the amount of labor work being done. -
Zachary Taylor ran in the year of 1849, and was the 12th president. Not only was he a president, but he served in the army over 40 years, and was considered a ¨hero¨ for the battles he faught in the Mexican War. -
This was a compromise that was made up of 5 bills. These bills were made right before the the Mexican-American War where President, James K Polks, said that is was his ¨manifest destiny¨ to travel and spread to the pacific ocean. After the U.S won the territory the Mexicans lost about 1/3 of their territory. This compromise was to try and settle the beef over the territories and slavery. This didn´t help the Mexican- American War. -
Millard Fillmore was the 13th president, an was a massive help when it came to the Whigs. The northern Whigs were opposed to the fugitive slave act and Fillmore was someone who was a big help of fighting that. -
Uncle Tom ´ s Cabin, a book written by Harriet Beecher Stow, was a book about a man named ¨ Uncle Tom ¨ and he was an enslaved person. Some people say that this book was the cause of the Civil War, it didn ´ t. But it did create more racial stereotypes. Even President Lincoln spoke with Harriet years later. Her heart ached whenever she had heard the tales of those who were enslaved. Later in her life she would write short stories and tales of these people´s perspectives -
Franklin Pierce was another big part of history because was one of the people who signed the Kansas- Nebraska Act that helped solve the problem of slavery possibly expanding throughout the country. He was elected president in 1853, and was the 14th president. -
It was a bill made by Stephen Douglas from Illinois that they would have to spread slavery in parts of the country in territories that banned slavery at first. At this time the North and the South were very divided because the south wanted slavery and the north was so against it, The north had the free states, and the south was considers the slave states. A fear if the north was that they were going to spread the slavery up to them and they would be forced to participate in this. -
The republican party was formed to fight the Kansas- Nebraska Act in order to stop the spread of slavery. This republican party was mainly made up of northerners, former black slaves, business workers, etc. Later on when Abraham Lincoln was elected he was also a republican. -
This was a violent event that happened when a member of the House Of Representatives joined the Senate chamber, and beat another Senator almost to death with a cane. Preston Brooks, who was a democrat and pro-slavery beat Senate Charles Sumner who was a republican and an abolitionist. A few days before this there was decision on whether Kansas should be a free state or not, and Sumner pointed the finger of this crime at two democrats. So Brooks way of responding was to beat him almost to death. -
James Buchanan who was elected 1856, served for the us. He also was serving during the southern secession. -
John brown in some eyes is considered a terrorist, while in others a patriot. In 1837, his wife of 13 children had been murdered by slave owners. This caused a deep hatred in John for slave owners. So, during the Kansas Nebraska act, he and several of his supporters killed 5 pro-slavery southerners with broadswords. This was known as the Pottawatomie Massacre of 1856. He, and even his two sons, escaped back to the east, but still felt good about what they did. -
Dred Scott was a slave that lived in Missouri. He wanted to become a free slave, so he moved to Illinois for quite some time. But when Scott returned back home to Missouri, he was no longer free. He tried to fight for his freedom in court, but in the constitution at the time it was not legal or ¨just¨ for ¨Negros¨ to sue in court. -
This was a handful of debates between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. Douglas was from Illinois and they were both fighting for a seat in the senate. Lincoln wanted to support and involve black people, while Douglas thought they should have nothing to do with it. This was a debate on spreading slavery. The demarcates won the majority of the votes so Douglas won this one, but this didn ´ t stop Lincoln. -
This event included John Brown and his crew, when they all snuck into Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and took some locals including Lewis Washington (relations to George Washington) as hostages. Their goal of this was to form a spark in the freed enslaved people to take action and create an army. -
This was really important because it shows the division of the U.S before the Civil War happened. At first, Lincoln struggled to win elections and ended up losing a total of 6 before he actually was elected president (16th). He was running against John Breckenridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas. The south were very mad about this because Lincoln was anti-slavery and that could penitently mean that slavery was ending for the south. -
This event took place when Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president. Lincoln was against slavery, and some people even called him an abolitionist. The south didn´t want him to be elected because he went against a lot of what the south thought was right. If Lincoln was elected as president this would mean that slavery, something that the southerners really rely on.