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Missouri Compromise
Who:Henry Clay was involved in the compromise.
Where:Missouri was involved.
What: Main would be admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. An imaginary line was drawn by congress on the southern border of Missouri. Slavery was permitted south and banned north of line.
Why: Congress needed to answer the quetsion of slavery for Missouri.
Other Details: Henry Clay (the Greast Compromiser) creasted the plan. The compromise only pertained to the Louisiana purchase. -
Wilmot Proviso
Who: David Wilmot and James Polk were involved.
Where: Mexican Territory was involved.
What: A proposed law to ban slavery in all land acquired in the Mexian War.
Why: Wilmot wanted California to be a place where free white Pennsylvanians could work woithout slave competition. He feared the addition of a new slave territory.
Other Details: The law never passed. -
Compromise of 1850
Who: Henry Clay was involved.
Where: California, New Mexico, and Utah were involved.
What: California was admitted as a free state and New Mexico and Utah were created. They would decide slavery through popular soverignty in these territories.
Why: U.S. aquired the Mexican Cession. The question of slavery arose in the new territories.
Other Details: A harsh fugivitve slave law was enacted in this compromise. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Who: Slaves were involved.
Where: The United States was involved.
What: THis act pennalized officials who did not arrest runaway slaves. Other laws were passed to increase the siezing of fugitive slaves.
Why: Many slaves were escaping to the north becoming free slaves without arrest.
Other Details: All you had to have was a claiment's warrent of testimony of ownership to arrest a slave. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who: Stephen Douglas was involved.
Where: Kansas and Nebraska were involved.
What: Kansas and Nebraska would use popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in the states.
Why:There was a debate on letting slavery spread to the west.
Other Details: This act repealed the Missouri Compromise. -
Bleeding Kansas
Who: John Brown was involved.
Where: Kansas was involved.
What: A small scale civil war in Kansas between proslavery and antislavery settlers.
Why: Becase the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed popular soverignty to decide the question of slavery.
Other Details: John Brown (anislavery supporter) led one of the most violent campaigns to end slavery. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Who: Dred Scott and Sandford.
Where: Supreme Court.
What: The decision declared slavees are not citizens and they could ot sue in court.
Slaves were banned as property
Congress didn't have the powers to ban slavery from the territories. They decided that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
Why: Scott had moved from a slavery state to a free one. Then his owner died, so scott sued for his freedom from slavery.
Other Details: Dred Scott's wife was invovled in the case. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Who: Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were involved.
Where:Illinois was involved.
What: A series of seven debates between Douglas and Lincoln for a senate seat. They touched many political topics.
Why: To campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Other Details: They talked about secitonal conflicts of slavery and states' rights.