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The nullification Crisis
Southern states felt that the tariffs were unfair and only supported the North. Calhoun said that any
State could nullify a federal law, considered unconstitutional. -
Compromise of 1850
The congress had many heated debates; the new territories won from Mexico would be admitted as slave states or free states. For each lslave state added they would add a free state as well. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The act was passed by congress, it permitted the capture of African Americans who had fled to the North to escape bondage. These laws heightened tension and set the stage for John Brown's raid and the American Civil War. -
Bleedin Kansas
5000 people from nearby proslavery Missouri came and voted for proslavery representatives in Kansas illegally; anti slavery opponents started their own government. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
5000 people from Missouri came and voted for people who wanted slavery illegally. People who were for slavery attacked the ones against it. -
The Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom, however the courts said since he was a slave he had no rights therefore he could not sue. The Surpreme court also ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
John Brown wanted to inspire slaves to fight for their freedom, capture the arsenal and arm slaves. Brown and his men were captured and sentenced to death. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln wins the election; southern states begin to secede from the Union, as a result of this. -
States' rights