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Missouri Compromise
in an effort to preserve a balance of power in congress between free states and slave states.The Missouri compromise would make Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot proviso proposed a law to ban slavery in the territory that we acquired from Mexico in the Mexican American war. -
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Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850. -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January,29,1850 in attempt to seek a compromise and avert crisis between North and South.As a part of the compromise of 1850 the fugitive slave act was amended and the slave trade was abolished. -
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Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
This was a law that consisted of southern slave holding interests and abolitionists nicknamed it the bloodhound law which consisted to track run away slaves. -
Uncle Tom's Cabim
A book published by Harriet Beecher Stowe that talked about the slavery in the south and made all the northern people that read it want to stop slavery. -
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Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States, a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation. -
Creation of the republican party
In February 1854 anti-slavery whigs had begun meeting in the Upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party which later would become the Republican party. -
Kansas Nebraska Act / Bleeding Kansas
The 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 borders. -
Sumner Caning
The Caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the Preston Brooks used a walking cane to attack Charles Sumner. -
The Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393, also known as the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law. -
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James Buchahan
James Buchanan Jr. was the 15th president of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War. -
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Lincoln Douglas Debate
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
Harpers Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Lincoln's Election of 1860
The United States Presidential Election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States. -
Southern Secession
The most serious attempt at secession was advanced in the years 1860 and 1861 as eleven southern States each declared secession from the United States, and joined together to form the Confederate States of America
