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missouri compromise
Speaker of the House Henry Clay carefully guided the bill through the House of Representatives, which passed it by a close vote in 1820. Maine joined the union that year. In 1821 Missouri became the twenty-fourth state. The missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave and free state in the Senate. -
compromise of 1850
In 1850 senator Henry Clay tried to find a compromise. He proposed that California enter as a free state, while the rest of the free territories would have no limits to slavery. In addition, the slave trade, but not slavery itself, would be banned in Washington DC. Finally, Clay pushed for a stronger fugitive slave act. -
Bleeding Kansas
With both sides arming themselves, an outbreak of violence became inevitable. John Brown, a fervent abolitionist, believe God chose him to end slavery. One night Brown led a group along Pottawatomie Creek, where they seized and killed five supporters of slavery. Armed bands soon roamed the Territory. Newspapers referred to "Bleeding Kansas" and "the Civil War in Kansas." -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas proposed organizing the region west of missouri and Iowa as the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Douglas hoped that his plan to expand the nation would be acceptable to both the North and South. -
Dred Scott Decision
dred scott was a fugitive. he belonged to a doctor named John emerson. the dred scott decision means that it did not matter whether a state had decided to be a free state or slave. -
lincoln douglas debates. .
The Lincoln and Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger Abraham Lincoln and Stephen douglas. Douglas wanted to keep slavery while Lincoln wanted to end slavery. -
raid on harpers ferry
After the 1858 election, Southerners felt threatened by the Republicans. In late 1859, an act of violence added to there fears. On October 16 the abolitionist John Brown led a group on a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His target was an arsenal, a storage site for weapons. Brown hoped to arm enslaved African Americans and start a revolt against the slaveholders. -
lincoln elected president.
The United States Presidential Election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. -
Lincoln Inaugural Address
As Lincoln prepared for his inauguration on march 4, 1861, people throughout the United States wondered what he would say and do. in his Inaugural Address, Lincoln spoke to the seceding states directly, mixing toughness with words of peace. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Confederate forces had already seized some U.S forts within their states. Although Lincoln did not want to start a war by trying to take the forts back, allowing the Confederates to keep them would amount to admitting their right to secede. The day after taking office, Fort sumter sent Lincoln a message saying they were low on supplies.
