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Missouri Compromise
• The Northern and Southern politicians debated over slavery’s growth
• Henry Clay resolved the conflict
• All states north of the line will we free states and all the states south of the line will be slave states
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Nullification Crisis
• Southern states thought Tariffs were unfair and because they only supported the North
• John C. Calhoun stated that any state could nullify a federal law they consider unconstitutional.
• South Carolina’s argument got denied by the federal government
• South Carolina threatened to secede.
• Henry Clay a compromised and lowered the tariff. -
Comprimise of 1850
• Congress had many debates as to whether the new territories Mexico won would be admitted as slave states or Free states.
• Henry Clay
• California = free state
• from the rest of the territories the Congress would not pass laws banning slavery -
Fugitive Slave Act
• The act permitted the capture of African-Americans who had fled to the north to escape bondage
• These laws heightened tension, and set the stage for John Brown's Raid and the Civil War. -
Bleeding Kansas
• 5000 people from nearby proslavery Missouri came and voted for proslavery representatives in Kansas illegally.
• Anti-slavery opponents started their own government and it was attacked by proslavery forces.
• To avenge this attack, John Brown murdered several of his proslavery neighbors -
dred Scott decision
• The decision also declared that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, and that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery.
• The Dred Scott decision sparked outrage in the northern states and glee in the south—the growing schism made civil war inevitable.
• Court case- Dred Scott vs. Sandford -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
• John Brown wanted to inspire slaves to fight for their freedom.
• Brown and his men were captured, and ten were killed.
• Abolitionists saluted John Brown as he was put to death; the issue of slavery had raised tensions to the breaking point. -
Election of 1860
• Abraham Lincoln won the election
• shortly after Lincoln was elected, Southern states begin to secede from the Union
• Lincoln said he would do nothing to abolish slavery but the southerners didn’t trust him
