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Compromise of 1850
Was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States. Created a four-year argument 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
Was part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. It required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their owner and citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin publication
s an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Was about the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom other strories revolved around. Helped lay out groundwork for the Civil War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had outlawed slavery above the 36' 30' latitude in the Louisiana territories and reopened the national struggle over slavery in the western territories. -
Sumner attacks Brooks in Senate
Sumner was an abolistionist and began a two day speach on the crimes in Kansas. In his speach he mentioned South Carolina Senator Andrew P. Butler was elderly, sick, and absent. Butler's cousin, Brooks felt he needed to defend his family and attacked Sumner's. -
Birth of the Republican Party
In early 1854, the first proto-Republican Party meeting took place in Ripon, Wisconsin. The new Party decided to hold an organizing convention in Pittsburgh in early 1856, before the Philadelphia convention. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Supreme Court decided that African Americans, enslaved or free could not be American citizens, therefore have no right to sue in federal court. Dred Scott was born a Slave in1795, but his daughter was bornin free territory. So he sued his owner John Sanford for his freedom. -
Election of 1860
Was the immediate push for the outbreak of the American Civil War. Issues broke out between parties on the questions of expanding slavery. The election consisted of four different parties, Lincoln, Breckinridge, Bell, and Douglas. Lincoln ended up winning the election and became president. -
Shots fired at Fort Sumter, SC
The bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter was the start of the American Civil War. The attack started at 4:30 am. It was a Confederate attack and win. -
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown, a staunch abolitionist and a group of his supporters descending upon the town, he and his men captured citizens and seized the ferderl armory and arsenal. Brown ha=d homes that local slaves population would join the raid,
