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Missouri Compromise
In late 1819, Missouri requested to join the Union as a slave state. During this time, the United States contained twenty-two states that were evenly divided between slave and free. The compromised bill had stated that Missouri would be a slave state but Maine would be a free state and slavery was to be excluded from the Louisiana Purchase land north of the Missouri border. People on both sides said it was deeply flawed and it brought up conflict that played a role in developing the Civil War. -
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Abolitionist Movement
The abolitionist movement attempted to achieve emancipation of all slaves, to end racial segregation and discrimination. Some abolitionist said that slavery was criminal and a sin. The Republic Part was then made because members believed that free labor was superior than slave labor. The abolitionists were against the slavery’s westward expansion that took form in the North after 1840 and raised issues leading to the Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a decision that California would be admitted as the 16th free state and in exchange, the South was guaranteed that no federal restrictions on slavery would be placed on Utah or New Mexico. Even though both sides recieved benefits from this compromise, the North seemed to gain the most from it. The compromise succeeded in postponing hostilities between the North and South, it did little to address, even reinforced, the structural disparity that divided the U.S. -
Fugitive Slave Act/Undergroung Railroad
The fugitive slave act was a federal law that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves.The Underground Railroad aided slaves to escape through routes that led to Canada, Mexico,Cuba and Northern locations within American. This contributed to the law This allowed slaveholders to abduct free African Americans because they couldn’t testify or have a trial. This act increased Northern opposition and helped fasten the Civil War because abolitionist didn’t approve of this unjust law. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe caused readers to become acutely aware of the horrors of slavery on a personal level. Southerners had a negative reaction toward the book and called it an apocryphal tale, even creating their own books in opposition to Stowe's. The novel was said to have laid the groundwork of the Civil War. -
John Brown and Bleeding Kansas
John Brown was an abolitionist who believed in the overthowing of the slavery system. He helped assist slaves to escape and he led the murders of settlers who was for slavery in Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States. This was one of the factors that led up to the Civil War because of the violent outbreaks. -
Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott Decision had said that anybody with African blood was not considered a citizen. Dred Scott was a slave whose master had spent time in free territories and states, Illinois and Wisconsin. Scott had sued for his freedom in but the Supreme Court decided he was not free because in the constitution he was not considered a person, so he had no right to sue. Because of this decision many northerners were outraged and the decision influenced the nomination of Abraham Lincoln. -
The Election of 1860
The Election of 1860 was served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the Civil War. The issues of slavery devided the Democrats into two factions, Northern and Southern and the new Party emerged, the Republican Party. Abraham Lincoln was representing the Republican Party and won with almost no support from the South. After Lincoln won, states suceded and this led to the Civil War. -
Southern Secession
Southern secession was a series of events that started December through June 8 of 1860 when eleven states dissolved from the Union. Seven of those sates seceded after Lincoln's election as President. Then the creation of the Southern Confederacy Government was created, with Jefferson Davis as their President. There were Union Forts on Confederate land. One fort called Fort Sumter led the beginning the War because Union soldiers refused to leave and Confederates shot cannons.
