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wilmot proviso
Description:Proposal to ban slavery within the land acquired as result of the Mexican War
Impact:His idea was blocked in the southern dominate senate but it inspired other abolitionists to stand up and make their own plans for dealing with slavery -
Compromise of 1850
Description:Consisted of laws admitting California as a free state,creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of popular sovereignty
Impact:ending slave trade in Washington DC and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. -
Fugitive slave act
Description:Required people to return runaway slaves. Fugitive slaves had to stand in front of a commissioner and the commissioner was paid 10 dollars if the the slave was returned and 5 dollars if the slave was freed; also stated that all US citizens had to capture and return escapees
Impact: Northern states enacted personal liberty laws and in the south it created sectional tension -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Description: Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolitionist, wrote a book about the life of a slave
Impact:let us see the horror of slavery on a whole new personal level -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Description:bill that mandated popular sovereignty, allowing settlers of a territory to decide if slavery was allowed in a new states borders
Impact:it overturned the missouri compromise and led to bleeding kansas and paved a way to the american civil war -
Bleeding Kansas
Description: a term to describe violence during the settling of the kansas territory
Impact: settlers for and against slavery flooded kansas to try to influence their decision which led to violence. abolitionist john brown led soldiers to kansas right before harpers ferry. -
Dred Scott Case
Description: Dred scott issued for emancipation since he was a former slave and had lived in a free state with his owner
Impact: the judge robert b tanny denied his emancipation and north and south tensions increased -
Lincoln and Douglas Debates
Description: a series of seven debates between abraham lincoln and stephen douglas about the issues of slavery and states rights
Impact: although he lost people liked him and his ideas and he was put on a map as a famous political figure -
Harpers Ferry
Description: a raid the was the first step to an ilaborate plan to establish an independent stronghold of freed slaves in the mountains maryland and virginia
Impact: john brown was captured and hung because he was convicted of treason. southerners feared slave rebllions so the north and south tensions increased once again -
Election of 1860
Description: northern democrats nominated stephen douglas,the southern democrats candidate was john breckinridge, moderates from north and south created a union party and they chose john bell as their candidate and republicans nominated abraham lincoln. since the democrats divided abe lincoln won the majority of electoral votes
Impact:john crittenden had an idea of a series of amendments to the constitution which included keeping the missouri compromise line but both the south and north denied -
Fort sumter
Description: after taking office lincoln got a message that fort sumter was low on supplies and confederate demanded its surrender, lincoln sent unarmed soldiers with supplies. when they got there confederate soldiers opened fire. high seas kept union forces from getting there and they surrender the fort
Impact: lincoln issued a call for troops and VA NC TN AK voted to join the confederacy and the civil war began
