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Missouri Compromise
An effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
A major slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. -
Doctrine of Nullification
suggested that states residing within the Union have the unilateral, inherent (natural, undocumented) right to void any law created by the federal government that could be deemed unconstitutional -
Compromise of 1850
A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe -
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Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas -
Kansas Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders -
Dred Scott vs Sandford
The Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. -
Dred Scott Decision
Affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, thereby-negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party. -
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Lincoln Douglas Debate
Debated the slavery extension issue in 1858, -
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John Browns Raid
John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South -
Election on Abraham Lincoln
The South thought Lincoln would end slavery -
Succession of the Southern States
Southern states' desire to preserve the institution of slavery. -
Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North and the South. The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people.