A Divided Nation

By JDArePurple

  • The Missouri Compromise divided the Louisiana Purchase into slave or free

  • Henry Clay helped the nullification crisis

  • US gained 500,000 square miles of land for winning the Mexican-American War

  • The Whigs and Democrats did not take clear position on slavery to attract voters

  • The Fugitive Slave Act arrested African American James Hamlet

  • Henry Clay helped make the Compromise of 1850

  • Pierce won the election

  • Douglass introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act was signed into law

  • Anthony Burns was arrested and was trying to escape with Abolitionists, but a deputy marshal died in the process

  • Brooks beat Sumner unconscious

  • Roger B. Taney wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott decision

  • Lincoln was nominated for US Senate

  • John Brown's death sentence

  • Confederate States of America was made

  • Lincoln was inaugurated

  • The impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin was suggested by her reported meeting with Abraham Lincoln