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Missouri Compromise
Debate raged in Congress over the proposal made by James Talmadge of New York to ban slavery in Missouri.Angry Southerners claimed that the Constitution did not give Congress the power to ban slavery.
He suggested that Missouri be admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Congress passed Clay's Plan, known as the Missouri Compromise. -
Wilmot Proviso
Many Northerners believed that Southerners wanted to take territory from Mexico in order to extend slavery. To prevent that David Wilmot proposed a bill, Wilmot Proviso, to outlaw slavery in any territory the United States might aquire from the war with Mexico. It passed the House of Represntatives but did pass the senate. Even though it never became a law, it had important effects. -
compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850 was a plan crafted by henry clay to settle the california problem.
The job of winning passage of the plan fell to Senator Stephan A. Douglas of Illinois. Douglas succeeded, and the plan, now known has the compromise of 1850, became law. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A novel that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. Harriet Beecher Stowe published it in 1852. She stated that Christian man that passed this law can not no what slavery is. -
Kansas -Nebraska Act
Senator Ste[han A. Douglas of Illinois drafted a bill to organize territorial governments for Nebaska territory. He proposeed it to dvided into two territories- Nebraska and Kansas. He suggested that the decision about whether to allow slavery in each of these territories be settled by Popular Sovereignty. -
South Carolina seceding from the Union
Before the election, many Southerners had warned that if Lincoln won, the Southern States would secede. They argued that the states had voluntarily joined the Union. Consequently, they had the roght to leave the Union. South Carolina became the first state to secede. -
Sack of Lawrence
It is a proslavory mob attacked the the town iof Larwrence, Kansas.The attackers destoryed offices and the house of govenor of the antislavery government. This attack came to be known as the Sack of Lawrence. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
John Brown and seven other men went to the cabins of several of his proslavery neighbors and murdered five people. This attack was known as the Pottawatonie Massacre. As news of the violence spread out the civil war broke out in Kansas. It continuted for three years and the territory came to be called "Bleeding Kansas." -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Scott sued for his freedom, he argued that he was a free man because he had live in territories where slavery was illegal.
Dred Scott v. Sanford, reached in the court in 1857.
In 1857, the court ruled against him, because he was not a U.S. citizen. -
election of 1860
The election of 1860 turned into two different races for presidency, one in the north and one in the south.Lincoln and douglas were the only canditates with much support in the north.Breckinridge and bell completed the southern votes.
Lincoln oppsosed the expansion of slavery into the territories. Breckinridge insisted the federal government be required to protect slavery in any territory. Lincoln defeated douglas in the north. North had more paople than the south, lincoln won the election.
