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Missouri Compromise
It was a compromise that settles the disputes between the South and the North over slavery. It was one of the first things that began to separate the North and South -
Gag Resolution
one of the several resolutions passed in Congress providing in effect that no petition against slavery should be received or heard by the House. -
Rise of Abolitionism
A couple decades before the Civil War a group of anti-slavery sparked up a movement and for the rest of that time it was pretty strong and it was also during the Civil War. -
Election of 1844
Democrat James Polk defeat Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy, with Polk favoring the annexation of Texas and Clay opposed. Added another debate over slavery -
Annexation of Texas
Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico on March 2, 1836. At first the US did not want to add it because it would upset the balance of free and slave states. -
Mexican American War
It was a war fought between the US and Mexico. The US won the war, encouraged by the feelings of many Americans that the country was accomplishing its manifest destiny of expansion. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of 5 separate bills that were passed the US Congress to help defuse the four-year political confrontation between free and slave states -
Creation of the Republican Party
The anti-slavery and the Whigs began meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party, it began to continue to separate the North and the South -
Bleeding Kansas
it was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery people in Kansas. It was a big thing before the Civil War. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
Dred Scott vs Sanford
, the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
was a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate, and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
Election of 1860
The election in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and candidate John Bell.
