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3/5 Comprmise
The 3/5 compromise was added to the Constitution to determine representation in the House of Representatives, slaves equaled 3/5 of a person. This shows sectionalism over slavery and the concern of which side has power in the government. -
Missouri Compromise
In 1820 with the admission of Missouri to the Union, the issue of slavery came up again. There was already a great deal of tension between the North and the South. The South was highly agricultural. It wanted to keep slavery as a way of life on their plantations. The North, which was far more industrial, saw this "peculiar institution" as unnecessary and increasingly morally wrong. One way the government tried to limit the tension was by keeping the number of slave and free states equal. So, in -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was a term used to desctibe American Progress. During the 19th Century, the Union expanded their territory, gaining access to the Lousiana territory, Florida, Texas and eventually Oregon. This American Progress was mainly for the north, establishing railroads which caused some conflict between the north and the south. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The fugitive slave act was an act that allowed southerners to retireve escaped slaves. But in most cases, negros were abducted and kidnapped back into slavery, The Northerners did not like what the nation had turned into. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 established the new territory California, Mexico, and Texas would be a free state or a slave state. The Slave state was established as a slave state in compensation for 10 million dollars and the California territory would be a free state. The mexico terrioty is open to choose. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Southerners were furious with Harriet's writings and her published books on the topic of slavery. Her books caught the attention of many Northerners and Abolitionists to spread the awareness of slavery. Her writings depicted the true nature of slavery and many Abolitionists did more to end the spread of slavery. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
A piece of legislation that divided the nation. This act allowed the Louisiana Terrioty, Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to be a free or slave state. This caused tension bewtween both the North and the South as northerners thought of it as an attack and wanted to spread slavery to all of the nation. -
Dred Scott vs Sandford
A slave brought to the north and was still not considered free. In the end, they didn't even identify Dred Scott as a human being. He was just property. -
Lincoln vs Douglas
slavery versus free labor, popular sovereignty, and the legal and political status of black Americans --were brought into sharp focus in a series of dramatic debates during the 1858 election campaign for U.S. senator from Illinois. The campaign pitted a little-known lawyer from Springfield named Abraham Lincoln against Senator Stephen A. Douglas, the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1860. -
Presidential Election of 1860
The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election. It was turmoil. Northern democrats felt that Stephen Douglas had the best chance to defeat the "BLACK REPUBLICANS."
The Republicans met in Chicago that May and recognized that the Democrat's turmoil actually gave them a chance to take the election. They needed to select a candidate who could carry the North and win a majority of the Electoral College. To do that, the
