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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri into the Union as a slave state. This compromise was active until 1854; the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The compromise stated that anything below the 36,30 line is a slave state and anything above it is a free state. -
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Missouri Compromise
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Abolitinist Movement
The movement was a group of religous people who went around spreading the word of god was to abolish slavery. This and Uncle Tom's Cabin was what made the country spiral out of hand... or one of the major events. -
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Abolitionist Movement
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a way for slaves to escape from the southern slave states into the northern free states. This consisted of safe houses along the border of the 2 different territories. The Fugitive Slave Act was brought to play due to this event. -
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Underground Railroad
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Fugitive Slave Act
This act stated that any slave that has escaped from the south into the north and is caught should be returned to the slave owner. This was the result of the Underground Railroad. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This book originally started out as a story in the newspapers from 1851-1852. The book/story told about the horrors of slavery in the U.S, it made many slave owner upset as well many people of the abolitionist movement push harder for no slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas and John Brown
Bleeding Kansas was an event of where the population fought itself, half of the population was for slavery while the other half was against slavery. One of the famous people of going against slavery in this was John Brown. This internal conflict was one of the most major interal conflicts of a newer state. -
Dred Scott Decision
The act was the fact that the Surpreme court ruled black men not free men under the consitution. This decision went against the doctrine of popular sovereignty; saying that slave owners were allowed to take slaves into western territory. -
the Election of 1860
The election was a battle was between 3 major candidates, 2 democratic, 1 republican, there was another party and their candidate was John Bell. Lincoln, Douglas and Breckenridge were the major candidates that ran and in the end Lincoln won this huge battle for president. -
Southern secession
This was the act of the southern states pulling away from the union, after Lincoln had gained office. The border states retained their names under the union. The new southern "country" was now the Confederate States of America. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was a fort that belonged to the Union. Confederate warships came in an bombed the fort for 34 hours. At this Lincoln asked for 75,000 volunteers to join the Northern army, and with this a states like Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennesse disolved their ties with the union
