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Fugitive Slave Law
This federal law allowed capturing slaves and returning them within the territory of the United States. All states must forbid slavery. -
Missouri compromise
Effort by congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries by the request of Missouri for admission as a state which slavery would be premited -
Wilmot Proviso
A democratic named Wilmot added an amendment to a military appropiations bill that proposed "neither slavery not involuntary servitude shall never exist". -
The 31st congress of 1849
A convention held bye California to forbade slavery. They wanted to be apart of the fugitive slave law. -
The Compromise of 1850
Senator Clay introduced a series of resolutions in attempt to end the crisis between North and South. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book written by Harriet beecher Stowe. About the process of trading slaves -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
Settlers wanted to move to Nebraska, but that could not because Nebraska had to hold a claim on their land. -
Bleeding Kansas 1856
Series of violent political confrontations in the U.S. Involving pro and anti -slavery. On May 21st ruffians looted the town in repsonse, John Brown orchestrated the murder several days later. -
Beating of Senator Charles Sumner 1856
On this day, a member from the House Of Representatives entered the Senete chamber and beat a senator uncouncious. -
The dred Scott decision
The supreme court issues a decision in the dred Scott case assuming the right for slave owners to take there slave western territories -
Harpers Ferry 1859
John Brown started a raid with 21 men to defeat the U.S. Marines. Brown asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas to go with him but Tubman was ill. -
Election of 1860
The 19th held presidential election served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American civil war -
South Carolina Secrdes from the Union 1860
Secession convention meeting in Charleson devoted ordinace dissolving the connection between South Carolina and United States. -
Harriet tubman
Conducter of the underground rail road. She went against the Fugitive Slave Act.