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The compromise of 1850 including the fugitive Slavs act
To pacify the slave-state politicians who would have objected to the imbalance created by adding another free state. The fugitive slave act was passed. Of all the bills that made up the compromise of 1850, the fugitive slave act was the most controversial. It required citizens to assist in the recovery of fugitive slaves -
Kansas-Nebraska act
On May 30th, 1854, the Kansas-Nabraska Act repealed the Missouri compromise, allowed for popular sovereignty, and created 2 new territories. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, bloody Kansas, or the border war was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri. Between 1854 and @859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality or slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. -
Preston Brookes v. Charles Sumner
The Brooks-Sumner affair occurred on May 22nd 1856, in the U.S. Senate chamber when representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery democrat from South Carolina used a walking can to attract senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist republican from Massachusetts, he nearly beat him to death in retaliation for an anti-slavery speech in which sumner verbally attacked Brooks first cousin once removed. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This was a court case debating on whether African Americans should be free or enslaved still. Their decision stunned the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri compromise to be unconstitutional. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of debates between Abraham Lincoln (Republican party for the US senate from Illinois) and Stephen Douglas (the Democratic party candidate). The main focus of this debate was slavery and its influence on American politics and society. The debates consisted of Douglas accusing Lincoln of being an abolitionist while Lincoln accused Douglas of wanting to nationalize slavery. -
John Browns raid on Happer’s Ferry
John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hideout en route to Harpers ferry. Defending upon the town in the early hours of October 17th, Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. This was to initiate a slave revolt in southern states by taking over the US arsenal at harpers ferry in Virginia, it was called the dress rehearsal for the civil war. -
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election against Stephen Douglas, John Breckenridge, and John Bell. He received less than 40% of the popular vote. Lincoln was the only republican candidate. Lincoln’s combination of a moderate stance on slavery, long support of economic issues, his western origins, and strong oratory proved to be exactly what the delegates wanted in a president.