Jonah badger

  • Missouri Compromise

    The compromise was made by Henry clay it solved laws about what is a slave state and what inst.
  • the nullification crisis

    The south didn't like the tariffs they thought they were unfair and south Carolina threaten to secede.
  • compromise of 1850

    After the war with mexico they decided which states were slaves states or not.
  • Fugitive slave act

    It said that if you see any slave in the north you can take them to the south.
  • Bleeding kansas

    5000 people from nearby slave states came to Kansas to vote Kansas as a slave state illegally. The anti-slavery government was attacked by slavery forces. John Brown avenges this attack by attacking his pro slavery neighbor.
  • Dred scott Decision

    He was a slave that sued for his freedom they then said that he was property and can't be taken unless due process of law.
  • Attack on Harpers Ferry

    John brown wanted to rally up the slaves for them to fight for their freedom but none showed up. He and his crew then got captured and executed.
  • Election of 1860

    Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Then the south started to secede shortly after.