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Missouri compromise
Who: Henry Clay
Where: 38th parallel
What: The creation of the slave state of Missouri and the union state of maine under a compromise.
Why: to even the vote in congress
How: Henry Clay came up with a compromise to ease congress's vote on slavery https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=22&page=transcript This goes over the actual compromise and shows how it was written -
Wilmot Proviso
Who: David Wilmot
Why:because of the Mexican American war had ended and politicians argued over what to do.
Where: United states house of representatives.
What: The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. The conflict over the Wilmot proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War.
How: The bill was passed in the House but not in the senate
When: August 8th, 1846 -
Compromise of 1850
Who: Henry Clay
What: This mainly admitted california as a free state as well as the strengthening of the fugitive slave law
Where: Washington D.C.
Why: to avert crisis between the north and the south
How: This helped trigger the civil war by strengthening the fugitive slave law, this angered the north and contributed to the first battle. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html
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fugitive slave act
Who:United States congress
When:September 18, 1850
Where: United States congress
How: they used the popular sovereignty and did the one that was the most popular.
Why: as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
What: It was a act where it compelled Northerners to seize and return escaped slaves to the South. They even forced Southerners to help them and capture the slaves but they resisted. -
Uncle Tom's cabin
Who- harriet beecher stowe
What- a novel depicting the horrors of slavery.
where - the book took place in kentucky
When- 1850
Why- to inform the north about how brutal southern slavery really was
How- it was written using pen and paper https://dptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/dpla-pss-056/primary-source-set-uncle-toms-cabin-by-harriet-beecher-stowe/ This explains the book and the effect it had on our country -
Dred Scott case
Who- dred scott - an african american man who wanted freedom
what - a court case that set another large milestone in the face of slavery
Where- the US supreme court
why - Because the man wanted freedom
How- his slave owner had died, so, he thought he was free and sued for his freedom :https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/DredScott.html This explains the dred scott case and how it furthered tensions with the north and the south -
Lincoln Douglas debate
Who: Lincoln and douglas
Where:Illinoin
How: they told each other what they believed and argued on what was right and what was wrong. In the end Douglas won but they soon become rivals.
Why: because they were at a crisis, the nation was being divided from the issue of slavery.
What: 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. -
John Brown's raid
Who: John Brown
What: An attack on a ferry to revolt against slavery
Where: Harpers Ferry, WV
Why: To attempt to revolt against slavery
How: By attacking and revolting In Harpers Ferry WV http://www.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/jbprimarydocuments.html This tell the story of john brown as well as his raid -
Southern succession
Who: The states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas
What: the leaving of the union by the south and the formation of the confederation
Where, the southern USA
How: the leaving of SC and the following of the others
Why: because of the southern way of life (slavery) https://dptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/dpla-pss-023/primary-source-set-secession-of-the-southern-states/#.Wv1vhujwa3A This explains the motive for the secession also how they did it -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Who: Stephen Douglas
Where: it was written in
How: they used popular sovereignty and did the one that had more votes.
When:January 29, 1861.
Why: because the war between the slavery and anti-slavery was raging and they wanted to stop it.
What:a law that undid previous legislation that limited the expansion of slavery, such as the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850. -
Lincolns election of 1860
Who:Lincoln
When:1860
Where: in the midst of the american civil war.
Why: because Lincoln saw a little chance that he could be president
How: he got a popular vote of 180 while the rest of the contestants added up were only 123.
what:The United States presidential election of 1864 was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1864. In the midst of the American Civil War, incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party defeated the Democratic nominee,
