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Missouri Compromise
Congress wanted to defuse sectional and political rivalries, for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. The Union and Confederacy were arguing because adding an odd amount of states would lead to an imbalance in power. -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
In August 1831 Nat Turner and seventy cohorts killed around sixty white people. Him and the survivors were tried and executed. This was the first showing of slaves fighting back. -
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Bleeding Kansas
They were still in conflict if they should permit slavery or not in certain states and they tried to settle it with a popular vote. Pro- and anti-slavery agitators went to Kansas hoping to put more votes in. Although both territories eventually were anti-slavery and ratifies the constitutions, the violence shocked and troubled the nation. -
The Wilmot Proviso
This event was a piece of legislation proposed by David Wilmot at the close of the Mexican-American War. If passed it would have outlawed slavery in territory acquired by the United States as of a result of the war. This included most of the southwest all the way extended to California. All the attempts for two years of fighting for it failed and the intensity of the debate surrounding the Proviso prompted the first serious discussions of secession. -
The Compromise
This compromise prevented further territorial expansion of slavery while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act. This was a law that compelled compelled the Northerners to seize and return slaves who have escaped to the south. The new Fugitive Slave Act, by forcing non-slaveholders to participate in this act. It also divided the United States. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
After the agreement they passed the Fugitive slave act. This meant that any officer had to arrest a slave on the run and if not they had to pay a fine. This put more efforts towards slavery. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Because of Harriet Beecher Stowe's fictional story about slavery, the slaves felt that their eyes has been opened of the horrors of what they had to go through. The book Uncle Toms Cabin, was the second best seller that came out and opened slavery to many people to the people who were indecisive about it. -
Dred Scott VS. Stanford
Dred Scott was a slave who tried to sue for his slavery. They found that, as a slave, Dred Scott was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights to a human being. This decision was affecting many people. Mostly slaves. -
John Brown’s Raid
He cut his teeth as a killer as an anti-slavery “Jayhawker” during Bleeding Kansas. n mid-October of 1859, the abolitionist organized a small band of white allies and free blacks and invaded the government in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He hoped to get weapons and distribute them to Southern slaves in order to spark a series of slave uprisings. -
Abraham Lincoln’s Election
His party was supporting antislavery. The South was threatened because they thought he was going to stop slavery. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter
Abraham Lincoln made the decision to send fresh supplies to the beleaguered garrisons. Confederate warships turned back the supply convoy to Fort Sumter and opened a 34-hour bombardment on the stronghold
