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Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise regulated slavery in the country's western territories. The compromise was not liked by the southerners because it established the principle that congress could make laws regarding slavery. Northerners, on the other hand condemned it for consent in the expansion of slavery. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmont Proviso was presented by David Wilmot, a Congressman from Pennsylvania, to stop the spread of slavery into the territories won from Mexico. The plan showed power of the North. It also made the South suspicious of the North's intentions. -
Free Soil Party
Free soil Party a new political party formed in Buffalo, New York. It was formed by the Northerners who wanted to Discuss the issue of slavery. This was the first party that was a "sectional party" -
Compromise of 1850
Includes 5 parts. California enters as a free state. The area from Mexican Cession divided into Utah and New Mexico. ended slave trading Washington D.C.. Made a strict fugitive slave law. Settled border problems New Mexico and Texas -
Fugitive Slave Law
This law was a part of the compromise of 1850. It was a law that citizens had to catch run away slaves. If a person comply, they could be fined up to $1,00 or put in jail. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was a novel written by Harriett Beecher Stowe. It was written to show the evils of slavery by telling the story of an older slave who was whipped to death by his owner. After reading it it changed many people's out look on slavery. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Divides lands into Kansas and Nebraska territories. It decided that slavery issue would be decided by popular sovereignty. This led to violence in the Senate. -
Pottowatomi Creek Killings
Because of the violence going on in Kansas, John Brown and four of his sons decided to take the law into their own hands. They ride into a small town named Pottowatomi Creek and pulled five pro-slavery men out of their beds in the middle of the night. The men are murdered. John Brown believes he is doing what "God has told him to do." -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave, he had lived in a free territory with his owner. His owner moved back into a slave state. While there, his owner died. Scott has abolitionist attorneys file a law suit for him. It went to the supreme Court but he lost. -
Lincoln Douglass Debate
Lincoln and Douglass debated. Douglas believed in deciding slavery by popular sovereignty. Lincoln Believe that slavery should not be allowed to spread into the territories -
Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown was at it again. This time he led five blacks and thirteen whites into Harper's Ferry. They planned to raid arsenal and start a slave revolt. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln ran against Douglass in the Presidential Election of 1860. The Southern states did not like Lincoln or what he believed in. They supported Douglass yet Lincoln still got elected.
