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Missouri Compromise
Between the North and South, it was a compromise so the states power could be equal. The states wanted equality. Maine was made into a free state and Missouri a Slave state. In the end, it will go down as the free and slave states will end up separating. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Democrats had divided over slavery and expansion. The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land. Polk tried to negotiate terms of treaty, but the measure was blocked in the southern-dominated Senate. The Proviso was the passed in 1846 by the House, but later failed to take any action. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty. Settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute, ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. Slavery was still growing. The compromise enabled Congress to avoid sectional and slavery issues for several years. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Senator Calhoun made the Fugitive slave act, hopping it would force the Northern to see the Southerners had the right to their slaves. Instead Northerners were convinced that slavery was evil. The Act allowed people to arrest anyone who said they were a slave. Many Northern states passed special legislation in an attempt to circumvent them. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s didn't like the Fugitive Slave Law, and it inspired her to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Uncle Tom's Cabin was about an enslaved man who was being treated horribly by his owner. Uncle Tom’s Cabin became known around the world. When it became known in the North, they saw how bad slavery was and it became the start of the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln once meet her and said “So you’re the lady that started this whole war.” -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The debate over slavery continued in the Kansas and Nebraska territories. The Act allowed the people in the territories to decide the slavery issue by popular sovereignty. Northerners then decided to go to Kansas to vote. Because of this Southerners refused to admit the territories because they lay above the Missouri Compromise line. The violence broke out. Bands of fighters began roaming the territory, terrorizing those who did not support their views. This then lead to Bleeding Kansas -
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Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the people in the territories to decide the slavery issue by popular sovereignty. Proslavery and Antislavery people immediately went to Kansas. Violence then broke out and bands of fighters began coming in terrorizing people who didn’t support how they wanted things. The violence was so bad it got it’s name Bleeding Kansas -
Dred Scott Case
The event involves Dred Scott and Stanford. It took place in the state of Missouri. This took place because the court could not find any black people or freed slaves that could claim the U.S. citizen ship. the Dred Scott case impacted U.S. history because the Dred Scott decision incensed abolitionists and heightened North South tensions and that impacted and interrupted the war three years later -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
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Lincoln Douglas Debate
Abraham Lincoln, and Stephen A. Douglas had a series of formal political debates. Lincoln and Douglas agreed to debate in seven Illinois Districts. Lincoln and Douglas were debating for one of Illinois two United States Senate seats. Although Lincoln lost the election, these debates launched him into being election as President of the United States. -
John Brown's Raid
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John Brown’s Raid
John Brown fought for slavery in the North and South with violence. He attacked the town of Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. They seized (stole) guns and planned to start a slave revolt. Brown thought the Bible instructed him to care for the poor and enslaved by violence. He was willing to give up his life to follow those instructions. This made Southern states secede. -
Lincoln’s Election of 1860
Lincoln was elected President. Southerners felt that the President and Congress were now set against slavery and no longer had a voice in the national government so they started seceding from the Union. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union. Because the Southern states seceded from the Union, it became the start of the World War. -
Southern Secession
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Southern Secession
With Lincoln being elected President and the North and South still being rivalries, the South seceded from the Union. Southerners felt they no longer had a voice in the national government. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union. Six other southern states followed. Lincoln soon after planned to send food on ships without guns. The U.S. troops surrendered. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, starting the beginning of the civil war. -
Bleeding Kansas
