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Missouri compromise of 1820
The Missouri compromise was a piece of legislation that Prohibited any territory above the 36¨30 line to be a slave state. Under this deal, Missouri would enter the union as a slave state. A new state was carved out of Massachusetts and joined the union as a free state, It was called Maine. -
Compromise of 1850 and The Fugitive Slave Act(part 1)
The compromise of 1850 was a deal brokered by Henry Clay as part of a compromise between the Pro-slavery/Anti-slavery sides. As part of the deal, California became a free state and the slave trade would be abolished in DC. The compromise also left the territories of Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery or not. The most controversial part of the deal was The Fugitive Slave Act which would legally require citizens of free states to turn in slaves by themselves. -
The Compromise of 1850 and The Fugitive Slave Act(Part 2)
The Fugitive Slave Act would force Anti-slavery citizens to go against what they believed in. It would force the issue into the least staunch Anti-slavery supporters, or even people who didn´t care that much about the issue. The Deal was heavily disliked by both sides and it didn´t stop the country from splitting apart. -
Uncle Tom´s Cabin
Uncle Tom´s cabin was a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stove and the book really highlighted the horrors of Slavery. The book was heavily picked up by northerners who were influenced by the book. The book was a story about an older slave who was whipped to death by his owner. Southerners called in an outright lie, and the issue of slavery had gotten even bigger. A lot of people credit the book as the biggest reason the civil war started. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act created two new territories named Kansas and Nebraska. The Act would decide that Slavery would be decided by Popular sovereignty. Pro-slavery and Anti-Slavery settlers went to these territories and there was a huge fight in the state of Kansas that lead to violence. The situation would be known as Bloody Kansas and violence was happening in the floor of the senate. The Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and slavery was aloud to spread anywhere. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
On the night of May 24, 1856, John Brown an abolitionist and his sons took five pro-slavery men from theirs beds in the middle of the night and murdered them at three different cabins along the banks of Pottawatomie Creek, near present- day Lane, Kansas. -
Dred- Scott decision
On March 6, 1857, the Dred Scott decision was a legal case in which the U.S Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott a slave who has lived in a free state and territory was not entitled to his freedom. -
Lincoln- Douglass debate 1858
The Lincoln- Douglass debates was a series of seven debates between Stephen A. Douglass and Abraham Lincoln at the Illinois Senate Election of 1858 to discuss the issue of slavery being expanded into the territories. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry 1859
On October 16, 1859, Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in order to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and to also destroy the institution of slavery. -
The Election of 1860
On November 6, 1860, The Election of 1860 was an election in which Abraham Lincoln defeated John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglass and John Bell and The Electoral split Northern and Southern Democrats because of slavery and later seven Southern states led by South Carolina seceded from the union on December 20th 1860.