The Past That Causes Our Future

Missouri Compromise

Mar 6, 1820

~North and South fight over slaveries
~Compromise idea by Henery Clay
~Missouri Compromise equal out the free and slave states
~Maine is a free state
~Arkansas is a slave state
~36 30 Missouri Compromise Line

The Nullification Crisis

Jan 1, 1832

~Northerner liked the taxes
~Southerner liked the taxes
~John C. Calhoun said that any state rebel a goverment law if they think it is not fair
~SouthCarolina wanted to secede
~Henery Clay thought of an idea to keep South Carolina in the United States by lowering the taxes

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Jan 1, 1850

~Abolitionist did not like this Act
~Southerner are allow to capture slaves and bring them back to the South
~Free Paper
~Uncle Tom's Cabin

Compromise of 1850

Jan 29, 1850

~Lands from Mexico enter the union as free states or slaves states
~Congree don't want the rest of territories to be banned from slavery

Bleeding Kansas 1855

Jan 1, 1855

~People from Missouri came to Kansa to vote for slavery
~Abolitionist create their own governments
~Proslavery hurt Abolitionist
~John Brown killed some of his Proslavery neighbors

Dred Scott Decision

Mar 12, 1857

~Scott was a slave
~Slaves can not be a citizen of United States
~Missouri Compromise law it been distroyed
~Slavery is allowed everywhere

Attack on Harpers Ferry 1859

Oct 16, 1859

~John brown convince slaves to gain their own rights
~Brown and his men were captureed
~Brown was killed
~Made abolitionist very angry and ready to fight

The Election of 1860

Nov 6, 1860

~Abraham Lincoln became president
~States from the South stated to break away from the Union after Abraham Lincole election