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The Tallmadge Amendment
This was about Missouri wanting to be a slave state. A man named James Tallmadge wanted Missouri to be a free state but the Senate passed them as a slave state. So the amendment that Tallmadge tried to pass passed the house but not the Senate leaving Missouri a slave state. -
1619 The First Slave Arrives
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1819 Missouri Applies for statehood
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1820 The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was when an imaginary line was drawn at 36 30'. The Senate passed the law and so did the house. They law said that anywhere above the line slavery is banned forever. But anything below it slavery was allowed. -
1856 Gag Rule
The Gag Rule was put into action after abolotionists flooded the Capitol with anti-slavery petitions. Congress was overwhelmed so in 1836 they voted to table the matter of anti-slavery. The abolitionists called this the gag rule. -
1846
A man named David Wilmot added an Amendment to a bill known as the Wilmot Proviso. It stated that any and all territory gained by Mexico would ban slavery. This Amendment passed in the House but was rejected in the Senate. -
1849 California Applies for Statehood
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1850 Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was obviously about slavery. It was also abotu whether California should be a free state or not. A man named Henry Clay made a Compromise that pleased both sides. It said that California can be admitted as afree state. But then the South would get Utah and New Mexico as slave states. This was the Compromise of 1850. -
1851 Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a story about a girl who had two visions. One was about a slave being beated to death by his master. Right before he died he said "I forgive you for what you have done." The other was about a slave being sold away from her family. She ran away from the slave-owners with her child and across the river. The author who is Harriet Beecher Stowe published this in the North and opened their eyes to how bad slavery was. -
1854 Kansas Nebraska Act
This was the act that made Kansas and Nebraska. A man named Stephen Douglass made a bill creating two new lands called Kansas and Nebraska. But they didn't know wheter to make them slave states or free states. Finally they came to a compromise that let the settlers choose. This is when people from he North and the South flooding the new territories. -
1856 Brooks Attacks Sumner in Congress
In Congress during the Dred Scott Decision Senator Butler's nephew Preston Brooks beat the Northern Senator Charles Sumner almost to death with his cane. He did this becasue Sumner was insulting the Southern Senators. -
1857 Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott Decision was about a freed black man trying to sue for his freedom. This man's name was Dred Scott. On March 6, 1857, the Chief Justice Robert Taney dropped two Judicial Bombshells. The first was that Dred Scott could not sue because he was not a citizen and never could become one. The Second one was that the Missouri Compromise was Unconstitutional. This meant that saying that anywhere above the 36'30. line slavery was abolished. But Dred was property and couldn't be taken. -
1859 John Brown's Raid
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1860 Lincoln Elected President
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1861 The South Fires On the North
