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Missouri Compromise
a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana -
Compromise of 1850
ckage of five separate bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War -
Fugitive Slave Law
Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin publication
anti-slavery novel -
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, -
Birth of the Republican Party
second oldest existing political party in the United States after its great rival, the Democratic Party. It emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which threatened to extend slavery into the territories, and to promote more vigorous modernization of the economy -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, -
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. -
Election of 1860
was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860 and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War -
First Shots fired at Fort Sumter, SC
The first shots fired at for sumter was the begining and spark of the civil war.
