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Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay wrote the Missouri Compromise in an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The Missouri Compromise was an effort by congress to change the sectional differences on slavery. -
Wilmot Proviso
Henry Clay wrote the Missouri Compromise in an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The Missouri Compromise was an effort by congress to change the sectional differences on slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850, upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate. The Compromise of 1850 was introduced by Henry Clay in a series of resolutions. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern and Northern slaves. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which led to a debate on which a war started... the Civil War happen. -
Kansas Nebraska Act/ Bleeding Kansas
he Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their areas. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Both were campaigning for election to the United States Senate Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were having a debate... Douglas Won!!!!! the election. -
John Brown’s Raid
John Brown's raid was a white abolitionist that was an armed slave, which there was a revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States. -
Lincoln’s Election of 1860
Lincoln was elected Present as a republican... He had most of the votes with 180 voters...by the states mostly in North Eastern states in the United States. -
Southern Secession
The withdrawal from the Union of 11 Southern states in the period of 1861, which brought on the Civil War. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott Case was about an enslaved man who was a owner because he was a slave in a non-slave state. He wanted freedom so he can do things in life. Dred Scott was a Black-Slave and he wanted to not be a citizen of the United States.