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Missouri Compromise
It kept the balance of power in the seate between the save and free states. it also called for slavery to be banned from the Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36, 30'or Missouri's southern border. Sectional tensions between the north and south on slavery caused bloodshed between the north and south on what should be free and what should be slave. -
Wilmot Proviso
A bill to outlaw slavery in any territory the United States might acquire from the war with Mexico. Slaveholders believed that congress had no right to prevent them from bringing slaves into any of the territories. They thought as slaves as property. -
Compromise of 1850
An act that admitted California as a free state, and abolished slave trade in Washington D.C. to please the north. To please the south, there would be no laws regaurding slavery in territories acquired from war with Mexico. This brought even more tension between northers and southerners because the compromise pleased both sides leading to hatred for the opposing side. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Uncle Toms Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War",Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible.sold 300,000 copies in the U.S. the first year it was published.
This book was credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. Which led to the Civil War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
An act put forward Stephen A. Douglas to separate the Nebraska Territory into two Territories, Nebraska, and Kansas. This caused a lot of tension because the south want them to be slave states and the north wanted them to be free. It was questionable because they were north of the 36 30 where slavery expansion had been banned, and it would take away the Missouri Compromise. Kansas would soon turn into a battle ground over slavery, and would lead to much tension between the sections. -
Sack of Lawrence
In 1855 proslavery forces attacked the town of Lawrence Kansas, which was the center of Kansas anti-slavery movement in Kansas. The attackers destroyed offices and the house of governer of antislavery government. This made antislavery men want revenge. Tensions grew between the north and south. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
To avenge the Sack of Lawrence, John Brown, an extreme abolitionist, and seven other men went to the cabins of several of his proslavery neighbors and murdered 5 people. This became known as the Pottawatomie Massacre, named after the creek near where the victims were found. This was to avenge the Sack of Lawrence after thes events many attacks happened leading to problems between north and south. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Scott had been a slave in Missouri. His owner took him to live in territories where it was illegal. Then they returned to Missouri. After his owners death, Scott sued for his freedom. He argued that he was a free man because he had liven in territories where slavery was illegal. They ruled that he could not be free because he was not a citizen of the U.S and could not sue. And living where slavery was illegal did not make him free. This gave people a reason to protest. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was an immediate cause of the American Civil War. The Republican nominee was Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, and the Democratic nominee was John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky. Lincoln was supported by the north and Breckinridge was supported by the south. Lincoln won the election. The southern states warned that if Lincoln was elected then they would secede, when the states seceded it lead to the Civil War. -
Southern States secede
The nation had been divided throughout the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. In 1860In the face of a divided and dispirited opposition,the Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured enough electoral votes to put Abraham Lincoln in the White House. The southern states warned that if he got elected.South carolina was the first to go and others soon followed. The secession soon led to the Civil War between Confederate and United states
