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the missouri compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the request of Missouri late in 1819 to a state slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States was evenly divided between slave and free. Missouri as a slave state would upset that balance; the Senate and the House passed different bills and deadlock threatened, a compromise bill was worked out with the following provisions: Missouri was admitted as a slave state ,except for Missouri, slavery was to be excluded from north -
the compromise of1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
bleeding kansaa
was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri -
kansas nebraska act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 -
the formtion of free soil
in 1854 the disorganized rparty were absorbed into the newly formed Republican Party, which carried the Free-Soil idea of opposing the expansion of slavery one step further by condemning slavery as a moral evil as well. -
dred-scott case
A controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Dred Scott, a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a “free” territory with his master -
john brown's raid
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery -
the election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War -
uncle tom's cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman -
the formation of republican party
polictical party established in the united states with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territory.the republican party challenged the older party for power.took awqy some of the southern states influence.