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Missouri Compromise
In 1820, there was a disagrement about Missouri becoming a slave state becasue it was a slave state congress would not be egual. Maine ended up becoming a free state and Missouri became a free state. Also anything above the parallel 36°30′ north is free and anything below it is not. -
William Proviso
President James Polk sent a bill to congress asking for funds for the war with Mexico. David wilmot added an amendment to the bill know as the Wilmot Proviso. It stated that neither slavory nor involuntsry servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory that might be aquired from Mexico. -
California Statehood
In 1849, California applie dfor admission into the union as a free state. Northerners in congress welcomed California with open arms, but southerners rejected Californias request. Admitting California into the union as a free state would upset the equality between frre states and slave states. -
Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Law was when there was a problem with runaway slaves. It declared that all runaway slaves must be returned back to their master. Since northerners were against slavary they could be jailed for trying to help the runaway slaves. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written by Harriot Beecher Stowe. It was pub;ished in 1852 the novel helped lay down the ground rules of the civil war. It was based on a girl named Eliza and her dramatic escape to freedom. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. The act was designed Stephen Douglas of Illinois. The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up many thousands of new farms and -
Onsted Manifesto
The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused. Cuba's annexation had long been a goal of U.S. expansionists, particularly as the U.S. set its sights southward following the admission of California to the Union. -
Charles Sumner Beaten
Sumner voiced his opnions in his speech called " The Crime Against Kansas" as a violent assault on an innnocent territory compelling to the hateful embrace of slavary.Copies of his speech were quickily printed for the north.Two days after his speech senator butlers nephew, Preston Brooks attacked sumner in the senate beating him with his cane until it broke in half. -
Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
Pro-slavary settlers and "border ruffians" from MIssouri invaded Lawrence, Kansas, the home of the anti-slavary government. The invaders burned a hotel, looted several homes anf tossed the presses of two abolitionists newspapers into the Kaw River. -
John Brown Invades Pottawatomie, Kansas
The Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25, 1856. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence (Kansas) by pro-slavery forces, John killed five settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas. This was one of the many bloody episodes in Kansas preceding the American Civil War. -
Dred Scott Decision
Scott had traveled to Wisconsin with his owner to where slavary was banned. Upon his return he went to court to agrue that his stay in wisconsin made him a free man. -
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
A series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass. They were both trying for reapective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature. The main Issue was slavary. The debates were held in seven towns in the state of Illinois: Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charlesten. -
Harper's Ferry Raid
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859. Brown's raid was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines. -
South Carolina Secedes
The white people of South Carolina, strongly supported the institution of slavery. Political leaders such as John C. Calhoun and Preston Brooks had inflamed regional passions, and for years before the eventual start of the Civil War in 1861, people liked the idea of secession. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to declare its secession from the United States. The first shots of the Civil War were fired in Charleston by its Cadets. -
Fort Sumter Attack
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states, South Carolina demanded that the U.S. Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor. On December 26, 1860, U.S. -
Abraham Lincoln Elected President of United States
The United States presidential election of 1860 was held on November 6, 1860, for the office of President of the United States .The nation had been divided throughout the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners.
