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Missouri Compromise of 1820
Congress made Missouri a slave state on condition that the the rest of the north of the Lousiana purchase was free. -
Wilmot Proviso
Banned slavery in any land aquired from Mexico -
Compromise of 1850
Let California in as a free state and Washington D.C. have no slave trade. Congress would not pass slave laws -
Fugitive Slave Act
Federal Law allowed runaway slaves to be captured again and returned to the owner. If you witnessed a runaway slave, you were required by law to return him. -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of fights that occured in Kansas and Missouri area that involved pro and antislavery supporters. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas and Nebraska had new land opened up for settlement and allowed white males in the territories to vote as to weather slavery should or should not be legal -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
In the court case between Dred Scott and Sandford, Dred Scott, a Virginia slave tried to sue his owner, Sandford. The case went to the Supreme court where they finally decided that Dred Scott was legal property of Sandford. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
A series of debates between Lincoln and Stephen Douglass for a spot of the Senate. Most of the debates concerned slavery, and in teh debates, they tried to win the vote of the people. Douglass won the debates.
