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Missouri Compromise
A series of laws enacted inin1820 to mintain the balance of power between slave states and free states. Missouri was admitted as a slave state, and Maine was a free state. It called for slavery to be banned from the Louisiana territory north of the parellel 36'-30'. -
Wilmont Proviso
This is a law that outlawed slavery in any territory the U.S might of aquired from the War with Mexico. But slaveholders believed that Congress had no right to prevent them from bringing slaves into any of the territories. They viewed slaves as property. Even though the Wilmont Proviso never became a law, it had important effects. it led to the Free Soil Party, a political party created to abolish the expantion of slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of Congressional laws intended to settle the major disagreements between slave states, and free states. To please the North, California was admitted as a free state, and slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C. And to please the South, Congress would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won from Mexico, and Congress would pass a stronger law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to show immoral and brutal slavery was. The books main character was Uncle Tom an older slave. The book explains Tom's life, and slavery.. It outraged Northerners by showing what slavery had become. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
An 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery using popular sovereignty. Kansas became a slave state while Nebraska was free. This led to the Sack of Lawrence, and the Pottawatomie Massacre. Kansas then became known as Bleeding Kansas. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
John Brown, an extreme abolitionist took seven other men to the cabins of several of his proslavery neighbors and murdered five people. Many Northerners were upset with the outcome of this massacre. In the end John Brown was hung fighting for the abolition of slavery. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
An 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in territories where slavery was illegal. The court ruled against Scott because he wasn't a U.S citizen, and had no right to sue in U.S courts. He was also bound to the Missouri slave code. Southerners cheered the courts decision. Many Northerneers were outraged and looked to the Republican party to hault the growing power of Southern slaveholders. -
Sack of Lawrence
A proslavery mob attcked the town of Lawrence. They destoryed homes and offices. In vegence of the Sack of Lawrence John Brown led an attack called the Pattawatomie Massacre, which led to National disagreements between the North and South. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was two different races for the presidency, one in the North and one in the South. Lincoln and Douglas were the only candidates wit mcuh support in the North. Breckinridge and Bel competed for Southern votes. Lincolen and Douglas had the most extreme views on slavery. Lincoln opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories. Southerners didn't trust Lincoln because they thought he would abolish slavery in the South. -
South Carolina seceding from the union
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union due to the Election of 1860. Soon after many such as Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded. And it became known as the Confederate States of America. Along with naming Davis president the convention drafted a constitution. The Confederate Constitution was modeled on the U.S Constitution. The Confederate Constitution supported states rights, it also protected slavery.
