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The Missouri Compromise was an important event leading up to the Civil War because of 3 things—#1. Congress at the time wanted to expand slavery into the new Western territory. 2# Missouri applied for statehood, which it was granted as a slave state, and also Maine was applied for statehood which it was granted as a free state. They did this so they could keep Congressional balance -
The Nullification Convention met. The convention declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina after February 1, 1833. It was asserted that attempts to use force to collect the taxes would lead to the state's secession
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Enslaved preacher Nat Turner led a violent slave rebellion in Virginia, increasing Southern fears of more uprisings and leading to stricter slave laws. Education was prohibited and the right to assemble was limited and banned from slaves so they wouldn't get smarter. -
The Black Hawk War was a conflict between the United States and Native American tribes, primarily the Sauk and Fox, led by Black Hawk, stemming from land disputes in Illinois and Wisconsin following the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis -
The Wilmot Proviso was a compromise proposed by David Wilmot at the close of the Mexican-American War. The Proviso would have outlawed slavery in territory acquired by the United States, which included most of the Southwest and extended to California. Wilmot spent two years fighting for his plan. He introduced it to Congress on its own, and even tried to attach it to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. All attempts failed. This debate prompted the first serious discussions of secession. -
The Mexican-American war stemmed from the annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845, a move Mexico refused to recognize, and resulted in the U.S. gaining vast territories, including present-day California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. Also, named The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This also brought up more conflicts and struggles, like what to do with all of these new states, whether they should be slave or free states -
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws passed by Congress aimed at resolving the issue of slavery in newly acquired territories after the Mexican-American War, including California's admission as a free state, the establishment of New Mexico and Utah territories, and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act -
The Fugitive Slave Acts were federal laws passed in 1850, allowing for the capture and return of escaped enslaved people, even if they were in free states, and imposing penalties on those who aided their escape -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, introduced by Senator Stephen Douglas, organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, repealed the Missouri Compromise, and allowed residents to decide on slavery through "popular sovereignty," ultimately escalating tensions and leading to "Bleeding Kansas -
The American Civil War was a conflict between the United States and the Confederate States of America, primarily caused by disagreements over slavery and states' rights, culminating in the Confederacy's secession and the Union's eventual victory.
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Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.