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Wilmot Privoso
Representive David Wilmot of Pennsylvaina, proposed a bill know as the Wilmot Privoso to outlaw slavery in every terrotry the United States might aquire from the war with Mexico. -
Formation of republican party
Emily and Mary Edmondson joined a slave escape attempt, but they got captured and they got sent to New Orleans. There was yellow fever there so they were sent back to Virginia. Then their parents contacted Harriet Beecher Stow's brother who was an ablitionist. He bought their freedom. Mary story motivated many antislavery groups to create the Republican Party-a party dedicated to the elimiation of slavery. -
The Comprimise of 1850
California applied to be admitted as a free state. California could not gain statehood without the approval of Congress. Congress didn't agree so to please the North, they made California as a free state and the slave trade would be abolished in Washington D.C. To make the south happy, Congress would not pass laws about slavery for the rest of the territorys won from Mexico. Also, Congress would make a law to help slave owners. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Under this law, accused fugitives could be held without an arrest warrent and they had no right to a jury trial. Instead they had a federal comminssioner ruled on each case. Southeners liked it because they liked slaves but it made Northeners mad since they had to help captured slaves. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A novel that showed the cruelty of slavery. The book was popular in the North but the Southeners thought it was lying. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
Senator Douglas drafted a bill to organize the Nebraska Territory. It proposed to divide the territory into two parts, Kansas and Nebraska. The Southerners liked the bill because people could vote for slavery in those territories. The bill made the North wrong because the bill would ruin the Missouri Comprimise and have a negative effect on abolistionist's movements. -
Bleeding Kansas
During the election of March 1855, there were more proslavery than antislavery settlers in the kansas Territory. After residents of Missouri moved there and illegally voted, Kansas was filled with representitives who were for slavery. This caused a proslavery mob to attacka town called Lawrence, Kansas. Then more battles and a civil war happened and continued for 3 years. -
Dred Scott Case
Scott had been an enslaved person. At one point he lived in free terittories. After his owner's death, he felt he was a free man because of his time spent in the free territories. Scott was denied because the government did not view him as a U.S. citizen. They also decided he was not free. This led to the discovery that the Missouri Comprimise was not constitiutional. -
Caning of Charles Sumner
Senator Charles SUmner of Mass. spoke against the people who were for slavery in Kansas. In this he insulted A.P. Butler, a senator of South Carolina. A relative of Butler's, Preston, heard about it and attacked Sumner. And then Sumner got severe injuries and became disabled. The south was pleased, but the north was horrified at the South's violence. This resulted in the anti slavery people creating the Republican Party. -
Attack of Harper's Ferry
John Brown had murdered 3 proslavery Kansas residents. He wanted to create a slave rebel. He planned to take wepons out of the U.S. Arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Brown and his followers captured the arsenal and sent out the word to near slaves. No slaves came though, and Marines came and killed some of his followers. Brown was hanged shortly after. The North was saddend by his death and the South was horrified at the North's reaction as they though Brown's actions were terrible. -
Election of 1860
In April of 1860 when the Democratic convention was held, the South and North's views became so different that the party began to split. They began to fight over state freedom and slavery. Eventually, the presidency race became a race divided in two spots. North and South both supported different canidates. Lincoln won the election with his anti slavery expansion views. -
Secession
Before Lincoln even won, the South warned that they would secede from America is he won. South Carolina left first and soon deep south states followed. In early 1861, the confederate states met in Alabama and became the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis as their president. They formed their government and their constitution and planed to defend their new country if need be. Then the North felt it was unconstitutional.
