Slavery and Westward Expansion

By erin_coxall_

  • Importation of slaves ends

    Economic
    Social
    Political

  • The Missouri Compromise/The Compromise of 1820

    Political

  • The National Abolition Movement

    Mainly social and political but had some economic parts

  • The Wilmot Proviso

    Mainly political but had some economic and social parts to it

  • Popular Sovereignty

    Political

  • The Compromise of 1850

    Political

  • The Fugitive Slave Act

    Mainly political but had some economic and social parts to it

  • The Political Realignments of the 1850s

    Political and economic with some social part to it

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Political
    Social

  • The Kansas Nebraska Act

    Political
    Social

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Mainly political and social but with economic points

  • The Caning of Charles Sumner

    Mainly political but had some economic and social parts to it

  • The Dred Scott Decision

    Mainly political but had some economic and social parts to it

  • The Raid on Harpers Ferry

    Mainly political with some economic and social parts

  • The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    Political
    Social