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Missouri Compromise
The north and the south were torn between pro-slavery and anti-slavery. Missouri wanted to be a slave state, allowing Maine to be a free state. It passed an amendment to have an imaginary line between free and slave states. -
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Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was the 12th president at the time. Before he was president, Taylor was a war hero and later became a farmer in the south. Unfortunetly, he was the largest slave owner in the south (at the time). When in office, he vetoed the commprimise of 1850. -
compromise of 1850
Comprimise of 1850 delt with issuse of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state. Henry Clay can up with a solution in 1850 saying that California had to be a slave state because of the Missouri Comprimise. -
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millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was the vice president to Taylor before he was kicked out of office. Once he was, Fillmore became President. He didnt like Taylor's oppinions and dicisions. He wasnt well edicated and put himself threw school and became a politition from New York. Fillmore later sighned the commprimise of 1850 -
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Franklin Peirce
Son of a war hero, parents who knew George Washington and personly knew Andrew Jackson, Democrate Franklin Pierce was the 14th President. He sighned the Kansas-Nebraska act. Before he was in office, his son died. The insident made him very deppressed which caused him to drink in office. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters moved to Kansas to affect the outcome of the first election held there. Pro-slavery settlers won the election but were charged with fraud by anti-slavery settlers. -
republican Party
people against slavery had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One meeting meet in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. -
Sumner Caning
Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner was beaten with a cain, by Preston Brooks. Brooks was angry becauase Sumner was against the south and slavery and was against what he had said at his speech. Shortly after was when Brooks beat him up. It took Sumner three years of recovery and he had memory loss. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott was a slave to a southerner. Him and his owner moved to a free state. In 1857, Scott filed for a lawsuit to not be his slave while living in a free state. Unfortunetly, Scott was still conciderd his owner's property and couldnt be free. -
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James Buchanan
James Buchanan was the President before Lincoln came into office. He was a lawyer, democrate, secritary of state, dul politition, and hated Andrew Jackson. Buchanan did nothing to help the fighting betweenthe north and south. One thing he told Lincoln when going into office was, "If your as happy to be going into office as I am leaving, you are the happiest person alive" -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
There were seven debates between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 election. It was the most significant statements in American political history.
