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Compromise of 1850
on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. Five bills that were passed which had defused a four-year confrontation between slave states and free states. -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
An anti-slavery novel published by an American author named Harriet Beecher Stowe. The books helped popularize the sterotypes about black people. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement. This act was to open up many thousands of new farms and make a new feasibe Midwestern railroad. The result lead to a bloody civil war, -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery and slavery. The main question was if Kansas should enter the Union as a free state or a slave state. -
Brooks/Sumner Affair
Brooks had unsuspectally started beating Sumner for no reason. Preston Brooks resigned from the House but was almost immediately returned to office by his South Carolina constituents, who viewed his actions as those of a hero. -
Dred Scott Decision
A.k.a Dred Scott v. Sandford. The Supreme Court had said, that African decendents were held as slaves and were not U.S. Citizens. People believed that was the worst decision ever made by supreme court. -
John Brown's Raid
An abolitionist who use milita powers to astablish slavery in the United States. He believed he was the instrument of God's wrath in punishing men for the sin of owning slaves. -
Election of 1860
The United States had been divided during the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. In 1860, these issues broke the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern factions, and a new Constitutional Union Party appeared.
