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Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to outlaw slavery in any territory the United States might acquire from the War with Mexico. This is a picture of David Wilmot. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act created disagreements. Nortrthern people had to capture slaves because of this. This is a picture of the Fugitive Slave Law. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise pleased the North and the South. To please the North, California became a free state. To please the South, Congress wouldn't pass laws about slavery for the rest of the territories won by Mexico. This is a picture of a map of the US in 1850. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in 1852. It explains the cruelty of slavery. -
Caning of Charles Sumner
Sumner wrote a speech that insulted a senator of South Carolina, A. P. Butler. Butler’s cousin, Preston Brooks, was very angry about that, and attacked Sumner one day in his office with his cane. This is a drawing of Charles Sumner getting attacked by Preston Brookes -
Nebraska-Kansas Act
A bill that proposed to separate Nebraska to two parts. Nebraska and Kansas. -
Formation of Republican Party
Southern Whig Party memeber joined the Democratic Party. Others looked for people who supported slavery and the Union. Northern Whigs joined the other rivals and formed the Republican Party, -
Dred Scott vs. Stanton Case
Scott was an enslaved man in Missouri. After his owned died Scott argued that he was a free man because he lived in places where slavery was illegal. When the case went to court the judge said that he couldn't sue because he's not a resident.This is a drawing of what the courtroom looked like during the Dred Scott Case. -
Attack on Harper's Ferry
John Brown and eighteen others captured the Harper's Ferry arsenal. He sent men to rally and arm local slaves and he wanted to capture the weapons. -
Election of 1860
The four runners were Stephen A. Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, John Breckinridge, and John Bell. The Northern and Southern runners had different ideas about slavery, and slavery split the country apart. This picture shows the popular vote during the election of the four runners. -
Secession
Southern states wanted to secede from the Union. On December 20th 1860, South Carolina was the first state to secede from America. The other states started to drop out of the Union and form their own country called Confederate States of America. This picture shows the progress of the secession. -
Bleeding Kansas
People went to Kansas illegally to vote for slavery. The ones against it argued against it. People that were for slavery came and attacked a town called Lawrence, Kansas. After that happened, Henry Brown and seven other men made a massacre. As the news spread, civil war broke out into Kansa, becoming known as “Bleeding Kansas”
