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The compromise five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. They did this to try to stop slaves from escaping to the north.
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Taney became known for writing the final majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford. He said that all people of African descent, free or enslaved, were not United States citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court.
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The Kansas-Nebraska act created 2 new territory’s. It also allowed for popular sovereignty. This causes the violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” it also causes proslavery and antislavery activists to flood into the territories to sway the vote.
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Bleeding Kansas was a civil war between pro- and anti- slavery forces that occurred in Kansas from 1856 to 1865. Thousands of Northerners and Southerners came to the newly created Kansas Territory. Many Northerners intended to prevent slavery at all costs.
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Preston Brooks vs Charles Sumner occurred on May 22, 1856. In the United States Senate chamber, when Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts.
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The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln (republican) Stephen Douglas (Democrat). the seven Lincoln-Douglas debates—all about three hours along—Lincoln argued against the spread of slavery while Douglas maintained that each territory should have the right to decide whether it would become free or allow slavery.
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1859 John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry conducted 21 followers on October 1859 is considered one of the major events that ultimately led to the American Civil War. He was hanged December 2 for murder and treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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absent from the ballot in ten slave states, won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes.
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