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Missouri Compromise
Missouri Became a slave state. Maine became a free state. Missouri compromise line made. Anything above is free state. Anything below is a slave state. -
Nullification Crisis
a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. -
Compromise Of 1850
California becomes a free state. Ended slave trade in Washington, D.C. Strict fugitive (runaway) law. Utah territory created. New mexico territory created. -
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas did popular sovereignty, which is the people is the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people. And there was many bloody, and fatal fights over it being a free or slave state. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Voided the missouri compromise line by allowing settlers in the territories to decide on the question of slavery through popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty means a belief that the political party of a nation or state comes from the consent of the people. -
Dredd Scott Decision
a landmark decision by the Supreme Court and the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court,and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States. Dred Scott, an enslaved African American man who had been taken by his owners to free states and territories, attempted to sue for his freedom. -
Raid On Harper's Ferry
the U.S. military arsenal at Harpers Ferry was the target of an assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown. The raid was intended to be the first stage in an elaborate plan to establish an independent stronghold of freed slaves in the mountains of Maryland and Virginia. -
Election Of 1860
A election between 4 runners and each from a different political party. Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, Stephen Douglas, and John Bell.
