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The Missouri Compromise
~Politics in the North and South grew over the increase of slavery
~Henry Clay, the great compromiser, settles debate between slaves in Maine and Arkansas
~Series of laws
~Maintained a balance between slave and free states -
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The Nullification Crisis
~1828 &1832 southern tarriff laws upset South Carolina
~South Carolina felt the tariffs were too high
~the tariffs supported the Earth
~John C. Calhoun, Vice president, told states they could void federal laws
~The states could nullify federal laws as long as the consider it unconstitutional
~The government opposed the idea
~As a result, SC threatened to secede from the US
~Henry Clay created a compromise to lower the tariff -
Compromise of 1850
~After the Mexican War congress had many debates
~Argued over new territories from Mexico to be free or slave states
~Henry Clay Created another Compromise
-California would be a free state
-The rest of the territories could choose what side to be on -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
~act passed in the 1850s by congress
~Didn't allow escaped African Americans to live in the north
~created more tension
~major leading role on the way to the Civil War -
Bleeding Kansas
~Kansas was about to become part of the Union
~had and election of legislature soon
~5000 citizens of Missouri cam to vote proslavery
~Antislavery people became angry and created their own government
~Antislavery population was attacked by the proslavery
John Brown, an abolitionist, murdered many proslavery people -
Dred Scott Decision
~Dred Scott was a slave
~Living in many free states before moving back to Missouri he had a hope of being free
~He was declined the opportunity to be free
~Supreme Court said that any black person would never become a citizen
~Declared the Missouri Compromise unconstiutional
~Slavery was allowed anywhere in the United States -
Attack on Harpers Ferry 1859
~John Brown had the desire to inspire the slaves to fight for freedom
~Had a plan to capture arsenal at base
~needed the weapons to arm the Virgina slaves
~He was captured with ten other men
~Were killed
~Abolitionist honored him when he died
~the slavery situation was brought to its breaking point -
Election of 1860
~Abraham Licoln becoms 16th president of the United States
~The southern states began to secede from America because they could not trust Licoln
~Southern States believed he would try to abolish slavery
