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MIssouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise happened due to the new land gained by the United States from the Mexican-American War through the years 1846 and 1848. This land was debated over in whether to use it for slavery, or not. Ablolitionists demanded that the new land should not be slave territory, but the south wanted otherwise. This specified free states, and non free states. This led slavery to continue, but confined it to that way it wouldnt' spread... but the Dred Scott Case broke this. -
Abolitionist Movement
In the 1830's the abolitionist movement attempted to emancipate all slaves in southern regions and beyond. The people who chose to abolish slavery became more confident and efficient in achieving their goal. This movement inspired the further consideration of the values that lie behind slavery, and provoked the work of Harriet Beacher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This drove a further divison between those who wnated slavery, and those who didn't that could have only been settled with war. -
John Brown and Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the name for the period of violence during the settling of Kansas territory. Bleeding Kansas was the result of the Kansas-Nebraska act that somewhat replaced the Missouri Compromise, as Kansas chose whether or not it wanted to be a slave state. John Brown, and abolitionist, led attacks on pro-slavery settlers in Kansas, which carried on into the center of slavery. This inspired more people to attack those who approved slavery, and gave power to the abolitionists as well. -
Fuguitive Slave Act/ Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad allowed abolitionists to help runaway slaves escape from slavery. Many men that were sent to retrieve these runaways were beaten by the abolishionists. The most famous woman activist to take part in helping slaves escape through the underground railroad was Harriet Tubman, known as the Moses of her people. This fuel drove slaves to escape even more, and for the North to do something to stop it. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an anti-slavery novel that was published by a white women, Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was originally published in an 1851 newspaper, and later in book form in 1852. This book showed the evil events that lied within slavery and it offered a look into what some people have never seen before. It became a national and subsequently a worldwide bestseller. President Abraham Lincoln met her and said, "so you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." -
The Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave who sued the U.S. Government for his freedom. He was a slave from missouri who was moved to Illinois, the Wisconsin territory, which is free land. The U.S. Supreme Court denied his case and stated that people with African blood CANNOT become U.S. citizens. This ruling overturn the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which restricted slavery in specific and U.S. territories, and further dived the northern and southern territores. -
The Raid on Harper's Ferry
The raid on Harper's Ferry was an act of the abolishonist John Brown. Followers took over the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, it was said to have been a slave rebllion. After this, Brown was hung after being tried for treason. Northern colonists then symbolized him and from there the South believed the North would wage war against them. This caused a further move closer to the civil war. -
The Election of 1860
The election of 1860 crowned Abraham Lincoln as the sixteenth president of the United States. Before getting elected, he was apart of a new political party that opposed slavery, and that was the Republican Party. When Abraham Lincoln was elected, fears that the Republicans were planning to abolish slavery grew to a new summit. Although Lincoln opposed the expansion of slavery, he would not change the places it was already in. This formed new groups of those who opposed slavery. -
Southern Secession
The Southern Secession was the point in our history where the South believed that they had enough. All of the preceding compromises weren't enough for them and much like a spoiled child to just parents, they emancipated themselves from them. South Carolina threatened this before in the 1830s, but this time went full forward, and they convinced six more states to join them. This caused the North to demand their union back into the Nation, which led to the Civil War.
