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Missouri Compromise
Split the country in two along the 36 parallel, everything south but Missouri is a slave state, and everything north is free. Written and negotiated by Henry Clay. Made to seperate slarery regions. -
Wilmot Proviso
Forced people to talk about slavery in the senate and people were confused because they usually ignored the topic. The northerners thought that because the rest of the world abolished slavery, we should too. -
Zachary Taylor
Taylor was a slave owner but he did not want to spread slavery because thought that it would be dangerous. -
Millard Fillmore
Fillmore wanted lots of compromise so he allowed the act of 1850 to go on and created a large division among the people. -
Compromise of 1850
The state of California wanted to be a free state, so they admitted it as a free state, which technically violated the Missouri compromise. However to make it fair, the territories of Utah and Colorado would be allowed to vote on it. D.C. abolished slave trade. -
Fugitive slave act
The Fugitive slave act allowed any person to take black people from the north whether or not they are a runaway slave. They then would sell them back to slavery. -
Uncle Toms Cabin.
Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It exposed the horrors of slavery and people in the north felt the need to take action. It became a must read. However the south felt insulted and felt that the book misrepresented the slavery. Many states banned the book. -
Franklin Pierce
Pierce was a little known man who supported slavery and signed the Kansas- Nebraska act. -
Creation of the Republican Party.
Made for the northerners to take action. Had their first meeting in Wisconsin and then their first official meeting in Jackson, Michigan. Abraham Lincoln was their first candidate. -
Kansas Nebraska Act/ Bleeding Kansas
John Brown went into Kansas with his sons to scare slave supporters away. They killed many people in the process. The reason he did this was because the act allowed Kansas and Nebraska to vote on pro or anti slavery. -
Sumner Caning
Charles Sumner attacked a older man named Butler for owning slaves. A few days later, Preston Brooks beat Sumner nearly to death in defense of Butler. This created many more tensions between the two sides -
James Buchanan
He said that whatever the outcome of the Dred Scott case was is the policy and ruling on slavery. This caused slavery to be a nationwide problem. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott was a slave from the south who was taken up north by his owner. He sued his owner because slavery was illegal in the north. However, because slaves are property the court ruled against Scott, and the constitution says that you have the right to have property. This then made slavery open to everybody everywhere in the country. -
Lincoln- Douglas Debates
Lincoln and Douglas were both running for Illinois state governor. Lincoln was firmly against slavery while Douglas was more supporting of it. Later on, These two would both run for president. Douglas would win the state election because Lincoln was too radical and extreme. -
Harpers Ferry
John Brown raided a military arsenal in Virginia to try to lead a slave revolt. The arsenal was then surrounded by the Marines and killed him. In the north he was thought of as a martyr and hero. The southerners saw him as a terrorist and were glad he was killed. This was in a way the first arms taken up to fight in slavery, sparking war. -
Lincolns Election of 1860
Lincoln ran for president in 1860 and won. This was important because he was against slavery and put the south in a bad spot. Because he was elected, many southern states would would leave the union. -
Southern Succession
Many southern states wanted to to leave because wanted to keep their slaves. In total, 11 states left and formed the Confederate states. This then set up the war and their sides by sectioning the country.
