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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to stop the political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
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Causes Of Civil War
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Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was made to stop slavery in the land acquired during the Mexican war (1846-48). Soon afterwards president James K. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million as part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty.. The Wilmot Proviso was introduced by David Wilmot (who ironically was considered a racist) Just two months before the war with Mexico. -
Compromise Of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills. They were passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories captured during the Mexican–American War (1846–48). As part of the compromise California entered the Union as a free state. The trading of slaves was abolished in Washington, DC. An amendment was made to the fugitive slave act. -
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A territorial government was established in Utah and the boundary between Texas and New Mexico was established. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850. It was part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave holding interests and Northern abolitionists. It required Northerners to return escaped slaves to the South if they found them. It was the most explosive act of the compromise of 1850. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Uncle toms cabin is a anti-slavery novel written by american author Harriet Beecher Stowe published in March 20, 1852. The novel "helped lay the groundwork for the civil war." according to Will Kaufman. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the U.S. involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery elements in Kansas between 1854 to 1861. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
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. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. That's why it is important. -
Dred Scott case
In march 1857, The U.S. supreme court issued its decision in the case of Dred Scott V. Stanford. The case was brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. Scott believed that his time in the free states entitled him for freedom. in his decision, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney disagreed, stating that no black slave or not slave, cannot become a U.S. citizen. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
The Lincoln-Douglas debates consisted of 7 debates during the 1858 Illinois state election. The issues they discussed were not only about the critical importance of the conflict going on over slavery and states' rights but also went into deeper questions that could influence political discourse. -
John Brown Harper's Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harper's Ferry was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. The local slave population would join the raid and weapons would be supplied to slaves and freedom fighters throughout the country but it didn't happen. -
Election Of 1860
With four candidates in the field, Lincoln received only 40% of the popular vote and 180 electoral votes — enough to narrowly win the crowded election. This meant that 60% of the voters selected someone other than Lincoln. With the results tallied, the question was, would the South accept the outcome? A few weeks after the election, South Carolina seceded from the Union It was important because it shows why the South seceded. -
Secession
South Carolina was the first to leave the Union and form a new nation called the Confederate States of America. Four months later, six other states seceded. They were Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana. Later Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them. They seceded because they were convinced that their way of life, based on slavery, was irretrievably threatened by the election of President Abraham Lincoln
