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Missouri Compromise
The senate and house was involved. Missouri compromise was created so it could balance the power in between slave and free states. The Missouri Compromise was a United States federal statute devised by Henry Clay. It established a boundary between free and slave regions that remained the law of the land until it was negated by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. -
Tariff of Abominations
John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson was involved in the tariff. It occured in United States, The tariff was gned to protect industry in the northern United States. John C. Calhoun wrote anonymous essays. -
Bleeding Kansas
An erathat would come to be known as "Bleeding Kansas," the territory would become a battleground over the slavery question. It took place Nebraska in 1854. The conflict in Kansas helped to cause more hatred between the North and the South. -
John Brown's Raid
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, it took place in Virginia which is now West Virginia. he raided Harper’s Ferry Arsenal and Armory in Virginia (today West Virginia). He wanted to get his point across to the U.S. government using 4,500 armed insurrectionists but he went through with only 21 men. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln, John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge was involved with the election. South carolina tried to suceed from the union and declared themseleves as a seperate union. -
Invention of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin. The cotton gin took place mainly in the south and in 1974. The cotton gin was important because it revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. Cotton gin showed compromise because it gave more jobs and sped up the process.