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Compromise of 1850
package of five bills that defused a four year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. -
1850 Fugitive Slave Act
It declared that all runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters. -
Stowe’s “Uncle Toms Cabin”
is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
Bleeding Kansas
kansas territory had a big violence to decide if the state would be free of slave or not. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery in the territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude. -
“Beecher’s Bibles”
the name given to the breech loading Sharps rifles that were supplied to the anti-slavery immigrants in Kansas. -
Dred Scott
went to trial to sue for his freedom, after a decade it was finally brought to the Supreme Court. He did not win because they decided that African Americans should not have the right to become citizens. He remained a slave. -
Brooks-Sumner Incident
rising tensions between north and south and the issue of slavery into the center of the congress. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
reaction to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery forces -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
a series of formal political debates between challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas. The debates were basically about slavery. -
Freeport Doctrine
Stephen Douglas's answer to Lincoln's question, in which he explained that slavery could only exist where there was a slave code. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_freeport_doctrine#ixzz278FQBJ2A -
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
he was abolitionist and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. -
Abraham Lincoln wins election
basically battle over slavery. -
South Carolina Secedes
Addresses to the Southern States and to the world have been issued and published; their length precludes their publication here. -
Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
targeted Lawrence due to the town's long support of abolition and its reputation as a center for Jayhawkers and Redlegs, which were free-state militia and vigilante groups known for attacking and destroying farms and plantations in Missouri's pro-slavery western counties. -
Lecompton Constitution
It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War.
