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Missouri Cmpromise
A 36'30" line is drawn to decide where slavery is allowed and not allowed. Slavery is allowed below the line, but not above it. -
The Wilmot Proviso
Plan to stop the spread of slavery in the land won from Mexico, but failed to pass. -
Compromise of 1850
Stated five things: California entered as a free state, area from Mexican Cession is split into Utah and New Mexico, ended slave trade in Washington D.C., made a strict Fugitive Slave Law, settled border problems between New Mexico and Texas -
Fugitive Slave Law
Required all citizens to capture runaway slaves or be sent to jail if they didn't. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A novel written by Harriett Stowe about a slave who was whipped to death by his owner. Changed the North's view on slavery while the South said the book was full of the lies -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Divide land into Kansas and Nebraska, but said slavery would be decided by populary sovereingty which led people to believe it repealed the Missouri Compromise -
Pottowatomi Creek Killings
John Brown and four of his sons rode into Pottowatomi Creek and pulled five pro-slavery men out of their beds and killed them in the middle of the night. Upsetted the South and appalled the North -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott appealed to the Supreme Court that he should be freed since his master had died and he had lived in a free state. the Supreme Court ruled that he couldn't appeal through lawyers since he was property.
