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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission to the United States of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate. -
Nat Turner
A 48 hour slave rebellion in which a group of slaves unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families. Lasting impact on whites: fear another slave rebellion could happen again. Tightened the grip on slavery -
“TRAIL OF TEARS”
Cherokees are forcibly removed from Georgia to Indian
Territory in present-day Oklahoma. -
Compromise of 1850
Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
allowed government officials to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave; all that was needed to take away someone's freedoms was word of a white person; northerners required to help capture runaways if requested, suspects had no right to trial. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
This was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that highly influenced England's view on the American Deep South and slavery. A novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and was drafted, it allowed people to choose if they wanted their location to be a slave state or a free state. -
Brooks Attacks Sumner (May 22, 1856)
Sumner-Brooks Affair. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner sat as his desk in the nearly empty Chamber of the United States Senate on May 22, 1856. He had recently given a speech called “The Crime Against Kansas” on abolishing slavery in the United States. He proceeded to attack Senator Sumner with a walking stick. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Aug 21, 1858 – Oct 15, 1858)
The 7th and final debate between Senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas was held on October 15, 1858, in Alton, Illinois. From August 21 until October 15, Stephen Douglas battled Abraham Lincoln in face to face debates around the state. The prize they sought was a seat in the Senate. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry (Oct 16, 1859 – Oct 18, 1859)
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene. -
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Navigation Acts
Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries. -
“Bleeding Kansas”
"Bleeding Kansas" became a mini civil-war between pro- and anti slavery people; in the end antislavery settlers would win the population race and vote Kansas as a free state in 1861.
