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Missouri compromise of 1820
Missouri in 1820 wanted to become a state ,but had problems with wether or not it should be admitted into the union as a slave state or free state. The Missouri compromise made Missouri enter as a slave state and Main enter as a free state. That way both the North and the South would be balanced. They also banned slavery north of the Louisiana purchase but not in the south because of how the states were divided. -
Wilmot Proviso
David wilmot a representative in the U.S. House of Representatives was against the spread of slavery and wanted to do away with it growing .He designed the Wilmot Proviso to eliminate slavery with in the land acquired as a result of the Mexican war. He had proposed his amendment to the bill ,but was blocked in the southern senate. Even though it was blocked many times it inspired people like John C. Calhoun to make their own plan for dealing with slavery. -
Fugitive slave act
The United States congress passed this law as part of the compromise of 1850 between southern slave - holding interests and northern free - spoilers. Several hundred of slaves would escape into the north where they could be free. This unsettled the southerners so the U.S. had to do something.It required that all escaped slabs were upon captured to be returned to their masters. -
Compromise of 1850
California and the Mexican cession ( which was divided up into Utah and New Mexico) were wanting to be admitted into the union. There were heated debates on wether or not they should be admitted as slave states or free states. The compromise was then made that each territory was determined by popular sovereignty wether it would be slave or free states. This helped make birth the north and south satisfied for a little while. -
Dried Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott was trying to purchase freedom for him and his family. He tried working to gain his freedom but his owner John Sanford made them work in bad conditions so Dred Scott finally decided to sue him in federal court for his freedom. This wasn't the first he had tried suing his owners either. -
Kansas- Nebraska act
It admitted Nebraska and Kansas into the union. The initial purpose was to open up many new farms and make feasible a mid western transcontinental rail road. -
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas was being admitted into the union. Popular sovereignty led pro and anti slavery people to flood into Kansas with the goal of voting for it to become a slave state or free state resulting into the bleeding Kansas . -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Abraham Lincoln and Stephan A. Douglas were both running for senate and had a series of debates over the issues in the untied states. The main issue discussed in all the debates was slavery in the U.S.
