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Missouri Comp.
In the years leading up to the missouri compromise, the tempers between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery states were growing short. It all went downhill when Missouri asked to join the union as a slave state. This could upset the balance of free and slave states. So Congress promoted this bill to allow Missouri to be a slave state, and maine to be a free state. This compromise also drew an imaginary line, where anything above it could never had slaves. -
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Causes of the Civil War
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Wilmot Proviso
In 1846 the Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery in the land that the U.S. got from the Mexican War (1846-48). After the war began, President James K. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million as part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was originally proposed by Henry Clay. This was an effort to fix the arguments between the North and the South at the time. The north was able to admit california as a free state, but Utah and New Mexico had no restrictions on slavery. Also Texas lost their claims in New Mexico in exchange for ten million dollars. Finally a Fugitive Slave Law was admitted, and this was hated throughout the North. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act is when the runaway slaves that escaped to the North can be captured and returned back to South by their old slave owners. The slaves would flee to Canada and Europe to escape the chance of being brought back into slavery. Slave owners were allowed to go into the North and capture their slaves that ran away to the north. They could punish them for running away. They were able to take their slaves back from any place in the country. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
It is a anti-slavery book. It was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was published in March 20, 1852. -
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. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
Dred Scott Case
In March 1857, a very controversial verdict that the Supreme court has ever come to. A slave who had been kept in free states/territories. When his owner died, he brought the court's attention that he should have been set free. The judge was pro slavery, and said that no slave or free black, could become an american citizen. So they could not petition in the court system. This showed the Judicial Branch was for slavery. -
The Start of Lincoln Douglas Debate
The Lincoln Douglas Debate was a series of Debates in the Campaign between of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas for one of the Illinois’ two Senate's seats. Lincoln had lost to Douglas, but all of these events soon led him to be the President of the United States. There were seven debates in seven cities in Illinois. Douglas accused Lincoln of many actions. The debates were always heated because both of them fought for that one seat. -
The End of the Lincoln Douglas Debate
The Lincoln Douglas Debate was a series of Debates in the Campaign between of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas for one of the Illinois’ two Senate's seats. Lincoln had lost to Douglas, but all of these events soon led him to be the President of the United States. There were seven debates in seven cities in Illinois. Douglas accused Lincoln of many actions. The debates were always heated because both of them fought for that one seat. -
John Brown’s Raid
On October 16, 1859, Brown led a small army of 18 people to the town of Harpers Ferry. His plan was to start a slave rebellion in the south. He would seize the arms and ammunition area. Give the slaves the guns. Him and the slaves would move along the appalachian mountains till they were at their. -
Lincoln’s Election of 1860
Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He became the first Republican to win the presidency. The Lincoln Douglas Debate really helped Lincoln become a bigger hit and a good chance to be a nominee for president. His main idea as president was to end slavery, but keep the union together. -
Southern Secession
South Carolina started the movement, by succeeding first. They left because they felt they didn’t have representation anymore, with Lincoln in office. In the next three months seven more states left the union. After Lincoln won, the North was celebrating, while the South was outraged, since not casting single vote for him. Then everyone knew, this meant a new nation would have to be created. -
Southern Secession End
