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Missouri Compromise
- Slavery grows and causes more tention between the North and South
- Henry Clay, the great compromiser, resolves the situation.
- Maine becomes a free state
- Arkansas beomes a slave state
- 36, 30 line is created as a boundary for the slave states and the free states
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The Nullification Crisis
- Some southern states found new passed Tariffs unfair
- John C. Calhoun declared any state can nullify a considered unconstitutional law
- governments rejection made south carolina threaten to secede
- Henry Clay lowered Tariff
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Compromise of 1850
- california admitted as Free State
- Henry Clay made the compromise
- Slave Trade in the captiol would be abolished
- No more banning slavery in any other territories from mexico
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Fugitive Slave Act
- Allowed capture of fugitive slaves in the north
- strengthened tention between north and south
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Bleeding Kansas
- 5000 people from missouri cam to illigally vote in kansas
- Kansas got a pro slavery legislature -Anti slavery and pro slavery attacked eachother -John Brown ended up killing some proslavery neighbors
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The Dredd Scott decision
- Dredd Scott sued for his freedom
- The court decided that african american slaves as well as those who were free, could never become citizens of the U.S. and couldnt sue in federal court.
- The decision also declared the Missouri Compromise of 1820, legislation which restricted slavery in certain territories, unconstitutional.
- Influenced lincolns vote
- south seceded from union
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Attack on Harpers Ferry
- John Brown attempted to capture arsenal on harpers ferry to inspire slaves to fight.
- no slaves helped him and he got captured, plus 10 were killed.
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The Election of 1860
- Abraham Lincoln became president
- Southern states began to secede from the union
