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The missouri compromise regulated slavery in the western states leading to disagreements between the north and south.
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The abolitionist movement was an effort to end slavery, which divided the country because some wanted slavery while others did not.
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It was created to help settle the disagreements between the north and south. It let California come in as a free state balancing the states. Balancing the free & slave states lead the north and south to rift
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The Kansas- Nebraska Act repealed the missouri compromise and the people in the north saw it as the south having more control. It made the south look more aggresive and created the anti-slavery Republican Party
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The Fugative Slave Act declared that slaves are not free if they escape to the north. If someone from the North harbors a fugative slave then they become a fugative which lead to the north getting mad
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Violence between Kansas territory & Missouri broke out after people started to question whether or not Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. It was a small war between the north and south and also last major event before the Civil war
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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas debated about slave states. This lead to t
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John Brown’s Raid was an uprising that had the goal of seizing weapons to distribute to Southern slaves. Nat Turner led a slave rebellion. The two of these influenced more slave rebellions, which led up to the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln was a republican, which made the southerners fear what was going to come. After voting, the south seceded from the Union, and others followed after them.
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The defenders of slavery believed that if slaves were freed, there would be unemployment and chaos. There was others who did not defend slavery. This led to separation of people because of different opinions.
