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The Missouri compromise helped keep the senate equal, Missouri became a slave state, and Maine to be a free state. 36-30 was the new line to decide future states. -
The compromise admitted California to the United states as a free state, but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves. -
The fugitive slave act was a law that was passed in 1850 that made it so that all citizens had to aid in the capture of runaway slaves. -
An 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe written to show the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act. -
The Kansas-Nebraska act was an 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas. This gave settlers the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery. -
John Brown led fellow antislavery settlers on a murderous raid in Kansas against proslavery settlers in 1856. -
The Dred Scott case was an 1857 supreme court case between Dred Scott and Stanford that brought into question on the federal power over slavery in the territories. -
The election of 1860 was when the democrats held their convention in Charleston, South Carolina. To call in all new territories but democrats refused to do so. Bell wanted to keep the union together. The election ended with Abraham Lincoln winning it all. This made many citizens mad because Lincoln had less than 40% of the popular vote. -
On December 20,1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede.