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Missouri Compromise
the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country.The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Not Turner Rebellion
It was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. Led by Nat Turner. Rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white. South wanted for the supreme court to pass more laws to control slavery while the north wanted to end slavery. -
Mexican-American War
On April 25, 1846, Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. As a result of the war, US annexeted Texas. Then a dispute started to know if Texas would be a free state or slave state. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a way to determine if a state would be free or slave while joined to the union. California was accepted in the Union as a free state.Slave trade in Washington DC was abolished, but slave ownership continued. -
Fugitive Slave Act 1850
The earlier Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was a Federal law which was written with the intent to enforce Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, which required the return of runaway slaves. It sought to force the authorities in free states to return fugitive slaves to their masters. Northern states were not follow the laws. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It 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 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. Slaves became to excape so South people were furious about that. -
Brooks Attacks Summer
The Caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate when Representative Preston Brooks (D-SC) used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA), an abolitionist, in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders, including a relative of Brooks -
Dred Scott decision
slaves property to be taken anywhere, Missouri Compromise unconstitutiona that a slave who had resided in a free state and territor was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise, which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional. The decision added fuel to the sectional controversy and pushed the country closer to civil war. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign as among the most significant statements in American political history. The issues they discussed were not only of critical importance to the sectional conflict over slavery and states’ rights but also touched deeper questions that would continue to influence political discours -
Election of 1860
American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. BreckinridgeThe election of 1860 firmly established the Democratic and Republican parties as the majority parties in the United States. The tension between south and north rose because Lincoln was in favor of south. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal; Brown and remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was hanged. Fought between south and north began -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. It was an ugly war between groups of people who held strong opinions both for and against slavery.Bloody Kansas, fought over the issue of slavery, was a precursor of events to come in the American Civil War. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book written by Hinton Helper. Helper hated both slavery and blacks and used this book to try to prove that non-slave owning whites were the ones who suffered the most from slavery. The non-aristocrat from N.C. had to go to the North to find a publisher that would publish his book.
