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Missouri Compromise
Northern Politicians,Southern politicians,Missouri,Arkansas,Kentucky,Tennessee,Virginia,and North Carolina was involved. this decided Maine: Free state and Missouri: slave state.This took place in Washington D.C but applied to Maine and Missouri. This happened because of a need of balance amid slave/free states.This worried Americans that the country would be always divided along lines There needed to be balance for the U.S to be united,this was the first compromise to decide slavery in the U.S -
Wilmot Proviso
This involved northern and southern politicians and David Wilmot. Legislation proposed that Mexican cession states should be free. The debate happened in Washington D.C but applies to the southwest states this occurred because Wilmot feared the spread of slavery and the balance of free/slave states being ruined this worried many Americans and made them question slavery.This was caused by uncertainty of what happens to the land from the Mexican American war. The effect was a debate about slavery -
Compromise of 1850
This event involved American politicians specifically Henry Clay and the people in the territories whose fates were being decided. California was admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico would decide the slavery question by a vote. The slave trade is outlawed in Washington DC, there will be a new fugitive slave law, and Texas will give up New Mexico for 10 million dollars. This event took place due to the increased tensions between North and South about the balance of free and slave states. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This event involved fugitive slaves and our nation's politicians. The law said that people from the south could come recapture "their" escaped slaves. This law was created on the basis that people from the south couldn't be deprived of their "property". This law resulted in many free blacks and escaped slave being captured and brought south. To avoid this fate many escaped slaves moved to Canada. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This novel acted as a whistle blower on the conditions that slaves had to endure. This novel showed many Northerners the horrors of slavery first-hand. Many Americans wanted an end to slavery after reading the novel. Harriet Beecher Stowe was and outspoken abolitionist. -
Kansas/Nebraska act
The Kansas Nebraska act mandated that the residents of the territory could vote on whether they would be free or slave. People from North and South came running to Kansas to vote and throw the election results in their favor. This competition led to multiple armed conflicts between the groups. Kansas was finally admitted as a free state in 1861. -
Dred Scott case
Dred Scott was a slave whose master died while serving in the army in Wisconsin. He attempted to legally sue for his freedom. The Supreme Court finally ruled that since Dred Scott was property the government couldn't deprive its citizens of their property even in a free state. His case had the result of showing that even in the North the law still protected slavery. -
Lincoln Douglas debate.
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas had a series of debates in Illinois while they were both running for a state senate seat. The debates ranged over many topics but mostly focused on the issue of slavery. Douglas wound up winning the Senate seat but when they both ran for president in 1860, Lincoln won. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown was an abolitionist who had previously fought in Kansas. In 1859 him and a few of his followers attacked the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia in order to capture its weapons and use them to arm a slave revolt. -
Lincoln's Election of 1860
In this election Lincoln, Bell, Douglas, and Breckenridge all ran against each other for president. In this election Lincoln was a republican running against two democrats and a Constitutional Union party candidate. Lincoln won in every free state and the slave states voted for all different candidates. In some of the Southern States Lincoln wasn't even on the ballot. After Lincoln won the southern states experienced even more unrest. Lincoln's victory was a cause of Southern Secession. -
Southern Secession
South Carolina seceded due to growing unrest about Abraham Lincoln's election and ongoing debate about slavery. Following this secession and the attack on Fort Sumter, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida also seceded and set up their own country known as the Confederate States of America. These states seceding caused other states to secede when the USA called for volunteers to put down the rebellion.
