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Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay created the compromise. At the time, there were an equivalent number of slave states and free states in the Union. The affirmation of Missouri, whether slave or free, would annoy the offset of force that existed between these opponent factions in the Senate. Under the terms of the Missouri Compromise, on the other hand, both sides were incidentally mollified. -
Mexican War Ended
America was ceded western property lands. There was question as to whether or not the new territories that would be admitted as states that would be free or slave.Congress passed the Compromise of 1850 which fundamentally made California a free state and permitted the individuals to pick in Utah and New Mexico. This capacity of a state to choose whether it would be permitted to be a slavery state was called popular sovereignty. -
Wilmot's Proviso
It help brought on the civil war the fact that it was often noticeble, bantered about, and voted on more than once for quite a long time. What's more this debating and voting rankled both sides on the grounds that one needed restricted of it, and the other side needed the other. Before the bill was voted on shockingly, southerners were terrified it would pass, so the attempt to contend that all Americans had equivalent rights in the new regions including the right to move their slaves. -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay makes another compromise that becomes to ban slavery. The compromise averted further regional development of slavery while reinforcing the Fugitive Slave Act, a law which forced Northerners to seize and return got away slaves to the South. This caused the southerners angry and fought over the compromise. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed as a feature of the Compromise of 1850. This demonstration constrained any government official who did not capture a runaway slave obligated to pay a fine. This was the most disputable piece of the Compromise of 1850 and brought on numerous abolitionists to build their efforts against slavery. This demonstration expanded the Underground Railroad movement as escaping slaves went to Canada. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. Stowe was an abolitionist who wrote this book to demonstrate the wrongs of slavery. This book, which was a hit at the time, had a gigantic effect on the way that northerners saw bondage. It helped further the reason for nullification, and even Abraham Lincoln perceived that this book was one of the occasions that prompted the flare-up of the Civil War. -
Kansas and Nebraska Act
The Kansas and Nebraska Act permitted both states to pick whether they were free or slave states. This demonstration destroyed Kansas. By 1856, Kansas had turned into violence and slavery resisting strengths battled over the state's future to the point where it was nicknamed 'Bleeding Kansas'. The generally reported brutal occasions were a little taste of the brutality to accompany the Civil War. -
Dred Scott Decision
In 1857, Dred Scott lost his case demonstrating that he ought to be free the fact that he had been held as an issue while living in a free state. The Court decided that his request couldn't be seen on the grounds that he didn't hold any property. Anyhow it went further, to express that despite the fact that he had been taken by his "owner" into a free state, he was still a slave on the grounds that slaves were to be viewed as property of their holders. -
John Brown's Raid
In mid-October of 1859, a abolitionist, John Brown, sorted out a little group of followers and free blacks and attacked a legislature weapons store in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He would have liked to seize weapons and circulate them to Southern slaves to start a wracking arrangement of slave uprisings. -
Lincoln's Election
Abraham Lincoln was chosen by an impressive edge in 1860 in spite of not being incorporated on numerous Southern polls. As an issue, his party's abolitionism standpoint struck fright into numerous Southerners. On December 20, 1860, barely a month after the polls shut, South Carolina withdrew from the Union.
