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Missouri Compromise
This law decided that it would use popular sovereignty on whether Missouri would enter the union as a free or slave state. -
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Dred Scott V Sanford
He filed for freedom under the law “once free, always free” -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay negotiated this compromise and it created 5 separate bills. It admitted California as a free state, organized the Southwest territory, adjusted borders, eliminated slave trade in D.C, and established the Fugitive Slave Law. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This figured out how to organize the states on order to settle the debates of slavery -
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13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
After the Civil War, these amendments were established in the U.S. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery, the 14th Amendment gave all U.S. born people citizenship, and the 15th Amendment gave people the right to vote as a U.S. citizen. -
Colfax Massacre & Cruikshank Case
A large group of black Republican free men were killed by a league of white men but only 9 of the people from the white league were brought to trial and none of them were acquitted.