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Missouri Compromise
Congress passed a bill letting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase -
Formation of Free-Soil Party
The Free-Soil Party developed in part from a political rivalry in New York it consisted of contending factions: the Barnburners, who were strongly opposed to slavery, and the Hunkers, who were neutral or supportive of slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
To avert a crisis between North and South the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's best known novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), changed forever how Americans viewed slavery, the system that treated people as property. It demanded that the United States deliver on the promise of freedom and equality, and contribute to the outbreak of the Civil War. -
Formation of Republican Party
In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories. The Whig Party, which was formed in 1834 to oppose the tyrannyof President Andrew Jackson, had shown itself incapable of coping with the national crisis over slavery. -
kansas-nebraska act
After months of debate, the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed on May 30, 1854. Pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed to Kansas, each side hoping to determine the results of the first Election held after the law went into effect. The conflict turned violent, aggravating the split between North and South until reconciliation was virtually impossible. -
Bleeding Kansas
Was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. -
Dred-Scott Case
On March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford was issued, 11 long years after the initial suits. The decision also declared that the Missouri Compromise which had allowed Scott to sample freedom in -
John brown raid
Just after sundown on the evening of Sunday October 16, 1859 John Brown led a group of 21 men across the Potomac River from Maryland to Virginia. Their objective was to capture of the cache of weapons stored at the U.S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Brown's ultimate goal was to destroy the slave system of the South. The arms John Brown, 1854 .From a contemporary photographcaptured by the raid would .allow Brown and his followers to establish a stronghold in the near -
Election of 1860
In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell. Lincoln believed in equal rights and thought there was no difference in skin color which created hatred from the south.
