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Missouri Compromise
After the Lousiana Purchase, congress wanted to establish a policy to gudie expansion of slavery into the new western territory. Missouri wanting to be a slave state sparked a national debate. Resulting in, Missouri becoming a slave state while Maine was admitted as a free state. Also a line was drawn through the western territory dividing the North and South as free and slave states. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner incited a slave rebellion that spread through plantations in Southern Virginia. Turner and roughly seventy cohorts killed sixty white people. After two days of terro the military suppressed the rebellion. Lawmakers of Virginia reacted by rolling back the civil rights slaves and free black people had possessed. Also education was prohibited and the right to assemble was severely limited. -
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Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed as part of the Compromis of 1850. The act forced any federal offical who didn't arrest a runaway slave, would be liable to pay a fine. This increased abolitionists to increase effoerts against slavery. Also this act increased the Undergound Railroad activity, as fleeing slaves made way to Canada. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850, was a set of five separate bills passed in the United States in Spetember of 1850. The five parts being, California became a free state, ended slave trade in Washington DC, the Mexican succession was divided into two New Mexico and Utah, settled border dispute of Texas and New Mexico, and the the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel on antislavery by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel shows the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can help overcome something as destructive as being a slave to another human being. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best selling novel of the 19th century. After being published just one year 300,000 copies were sold alone in the United States. The book and plays were created to help popularize the number of stereotypes about black people. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott was a Virginia slave who tried to sure for his freedom in court. Eventually his case rose to the level of the Supreme Court. Which the justices found that, as a slave, Dred Scott was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights or recognitions afforded to a human being. The classification of slaves as property made the federal government authority regulate the institution much more ambigous. -
John Brown's Raid
During Bleeding Kansas John Brown showed his support against slavery. He organzied a small band of white allies and free blacks and radided a government arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He wanted to take weapons and distribute them to Southern slaves in order to spark a series of slave uprisings. After capturing the arsenal Brown was tried for treason. -
Abraham Lincoln's Election
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win presidency. Defeating Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas. The victory of Lincoln signaled the secession of the Southern states. One month later, the American Civil War began at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of political confrontations in the United States that began in 1854. The main conflict was whether Kansas would allow or outlaw slavery, and enter the Union as a slave state or a free state. Bleeding Kansas was a war between anti-slavery forces in the North and pro-slavery forces in the South. The violence indicated that a compromise was unlikely leaeding to the Civil War. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina. The North considered the fort to be property of the United States government. The people of South Carolina believed it belonged to the new Confederacy. As Lincoln was elected president pressure grew for him to take action on Fort Sumter and reunite the states. Jefferson Davis ordered Anderson to surrender Sumter and Anderson refused. The Civil War began at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861.
