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The Missouri compromise was when they made Missouri was a slave state but Maine a free state keeping the balence between the North and South. -
A rebellion led my Nat Turner where African Americans grabbed guns and killed every white person they saw. -
1836 the House passed a resolution that automatically postponed action on all petitions relating to slavery without hearing them.
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The Wilmott Proviso was an important congressional proposal in the 1840s to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territories -
Dred Scott tried to sue for his freedom but then was rejected and the court said that he was not able to because he was not a citizen and never would be
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Harriet Tubman was a black woman who escaped slavery and also saved 300 other slaves. She also helped ensure the final defeat of slavery in the United States by aiding the Union during the American Civil War. -
it included the fugitive slave act which was amended and the slave trade in Washington D.C. was abolished, which then made the south mad because it was making it so they could not trade slaves in Washington. Some people might have even lost money because they did not have enough slaves because they got all their slaves from Washington. The North was happy about this because it meant that no more slaves would be traded in Washington. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a series of books that showed what slavery was really like. Many people saw it and it made the North really mad and it made the south a bit embarrassed. -
It was a law. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.
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This period of warfare is referred to as Bleeding Kansas because of the blood shed by pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups.
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The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats.
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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 revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery. He ended up getting caught and executed.
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This was the time when Abraham Lincoln was elected president!!