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Missouri Compromise
The agreement was between the pro-slavery and antislavery states in the US. It made Missouri a slave state to please the South and it also made Maine as a free state to please the North. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War. Soon 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. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–48). -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the US Congress, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It greatly influenced many people's thoughts about African Americans and slavery in the United States. -
Kansas Nebraska Act/ Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery. -
Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott case was when Dred Scotts owner took him into northern states and he thought that he would be free since it was Northern territory so he went to court to be free, but he did not succeed. -
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Lincoln Douglas Debate
Their debates focused on slavery and the morals, values, and logic behind it. -
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John Brown's Raid
John Brown went to Harpers Ferry to attack. He was planning on giving weapons to slaves. The slaves would use the weapons to fight against their masters and become free. His sons and several other men, helped him with the attack. It did not work. He was captured and executed. -
Lincoln's Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois. -
Southern Secession
Southern States wanted to secede from the U.S.
