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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was made on March 3, 1820. The United States had frown into sectionalism, called the North and the South. It was made to preserve the balance bewteen slave and free states. It made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state. Henery Clay supported the Missouri Compromise. The Kansas-Nebraska act nullified the Missouri Compromise in 1854.This started debates of free and slave states. -
Nathaniel Turner's Rebellion
Nathaniel Turner was a religous leader to the enslaved African- Americans. He was the leader of a group of people that did viloent acts against the slave owners. He had killed at least 55 white slave owners before be captured and hung. His rebellion scared many white settlers in the South. More slave codes were added becasue of his rebellion, but it inspred many other African American enslaved people to fight back. -
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prohibit slavery from an area or be able to control it. Neither of these laws passed because of angry disputes over the laws. The Wilmot Proviso ended on March 1, 1850. In 1848 the United States gained California and New Mexico, but didn't take act on slavery in those states. -
The Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso would ban slavery that might be obtained from Mexico. David Wilmot introduced this proposal. Many Southerners disagreed with the Wilmot Proviso. They thought any antislavery policy would danger slavery everywhere. The Southerners wanted California and New Mexico to stay slave states. Senator John C. Calhoun made another idea that said that Congress or any territorial government had the jurisdiction to prohibit slavery from an area or be able to control it. Neither of these law -
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itself. Also slavery would be banned in Washinton, D.C. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was when Congress passed five bills in 1850. All together they became known as the Compromise of 1850. Stephen A. Douglas divided the plan into parts that could be voted on individually. Henery Clay made this plan. He was trying to find a compromise between the South and North's differecnes on California and slavery. The Compromise was that California become a free state while the rest of the new areas would have no limits on slavery and allso slave trade, but not slavery -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act requied all citizens to help catch runaway slaves, and anyone who helped a runaway slave would be fined or imprisoned. Slaveholders tried also to help out with it and they would capture runaway slaves that had been free for more than a few years.They would also capture other African- Americans who weren't trying to escape and force them into slavery. Even though there were penalties the Northerners still helped and they called it the Undergorund Railroad. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas and Nebraska were both coming in as states. They were both above 36º30ºN from the Missouri Compromise, but Stephen A. Douglas knew the Southerners wouldn't like that they would come in as free. So he went against the Missouri Compromise and had people vote for free or slave which is popular sovereignty. Many people from Missouri came in to Kansas and voted slave. So Kansas became a slave state, but many abolitionists didn't like that though. So 800 slavery supporters attacked the -
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abolitionists. They destoryed many homes, a hotel, and 2 newspaper offices. John Brown, an abolitionist, was very angry, so he led a group of abolitionists and they went and killed 5 slavery supporters. Those fights became known as "Bleeding Kansas." It was starting to look like a civil war. -
The Dred-Scott Case
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American and was owned in Missouri by an army doctor. They moved to Illinois, a free state, then moved to Wisconsin Territory, where slavery is banned, then he went back to Missouri where the doctor died. He was then sued for his freedom. Scott said he should be free because he lived in a area where slavery was prohibited. Eleven years later they were still argueing and finally the court's decission was still an enslaved person. This case caused the nation to -
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John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown led a group to raid Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to get to the arsenal and give the weapons to the enslaved African Americans. He wanted them to start a revolt against the slaveholders.He paid for the raid and it was stopped by close by citizens and federal troops. He was convicted of treason and murder an sentenced to hang. To some Northerners he was considered an act of violence, but to others he was a martyer. This rallied many abolitionists.Also it scared Southerners. -
Lincoln's Election
In 1860 Lincoln was facing against Douglas. Douglas represented the Northern fraction of the heavily on the split Democratic Party. Lincoln was the first Republican to win presidency. Lincoln's victory was a signal that the Southern states were going to secede. The Southern states threatened that if Rupublicans gained the White House that they would secede. Lincoln's election caused the secession of the Southern states. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
Confederate forces had already taken many U.S. forts. Even though Lincoln diddn't want to start war, he knew that if they didn't take back the forts it would allow the Southern states to secede. The day after Lincoln was in office he recireved a letter that said they were running low on supplies and the Confederates were demanding for surrender.Lincoln sent supples without more men. Jeffersen Davis made a fateful choice and said to attack the fort.
