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War with Mexico
Mexican-American War, also called Mexican War, was a war between the United States and Mexico stemming from the United States' annexation of Texas in 1845 -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions , in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Fugitive Slave Laws
the Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilders. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves. -
Pros and Cons of Uncle Toms Cabins
Literature Pros and Cons: Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was about a the conflict between a slave named Tom adn his brutal white slave owner Simon Legree. This book was written to show people in the North the brutality of slave owners and owning slaves and to convince them to go anti-slavery. -
Republican Party Established
former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories. By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper mid-western states to discuss the formation of a new party. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act 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´ -
Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad was formed in the late 1700s, and it ran north to the free states and Canada, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860. One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the "Railroad" -
Sumner Brooks Incident
Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner with a cane. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was an avowed Abolitionist and leader of the Republican Party. After the sack of Lawrence, on May 21, 1856, he gave a bitter speech in the Senate called "The Crime Against Kansas." The speech went on for two days. -
Lecompton Constitution
The Completion Constitution was the second of four proposed constitutions for the state of Kansas. The document was written in response to the anti-slavery position of the 1855 Topeka Constitution of James H. Lane and other free-state advocates -
Pros and Cons of Impending crisis of the South
This book was written to show the United States how slave owning weakened the South's economy.Southern States quickly banned the book but it still go around the northern states and strengthened the fight against slavery. -
Panic of 1857
The Panic of 1857 was a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy. Because of the disconnectedness of the world economy by the 1850s, the financial crisis that began in late 1857 was the first worldwide economic crisis -
Bleeding Kansas
The Panic of 1857 was a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy. Because of the disconnectedness of the world economy by the 1850s, the financial crisis that began in late 1857 was the first worldwide economic crisis. -
Lincoln - Douglas Debate
The Lincoln–Douglas debates, also known as The Great Debates of 1858, were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
John Browns Raid
John Brown's raid or The raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
The Election of 1860, had Republican Abraham Lincoln defeat Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Dred Scott Vs. Standford
Delivered by Chief Justice Roger Taney, this opinion declared that slaves were not citizens of the United States and could not sue in Federal courts
