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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise probihited slavery in the unorganized territory in the great plains. -
Compromise of 1850
A package of five bills passed on september 4 1850. These bills refused a four year confrontation between the slave states and the free states. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Past by the U.S congress on september 18, 1850 as part of the compromise of 1850 between Southern slave holding intrest and Northern free soilers. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
An anti-slavery novel by american author Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. The book had a profound effect on attitudes on African Americans. -
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Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent events involving anti-slavery free staters. Took place in the Kansas terrirtory and Western frontier. -
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John Brown's Raid
American abolitionist that practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas. -
Dred Scott Decision
This was the first time that the supreme court invalidated a major piece of Federal legislation. The decision declared that congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the Federal territorys.
