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3/5th Compromise
Count slaves as 3/5ths of a person's vote. /
Gave the southern states a third more seats in congress and a third more electoral votes. /
One of the first slavery compromises. -
Compromise of 1850
A package of 5 separate bills that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican-American War. /
Utah and Mexico are without restrictions on slavery. /
Adjustment of the Texas/Mexico border. /
Tougher Fugitive Slave Laws (Provided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners and was now aimed at eliminating the underground railroad). /
A solution to the threat of national division. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
An abolitionist book. /
Helped crystallize the rift between the North and the South. /
The greatest American propaganda novel ever written. /
Helped bring about the Civil War. /
Gives the North an insight to slavery in the South. / -
Bleeding Kansas
AKA-The Kansas Border War. /
Following the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act. /
Pro-Slavery forces from Missouri (Border Ruffians) crossed the border into Kansas and terrorized and murdered anti-slavery settlers. /
Anti-slavery sympathizes from Kansas carried out reprisal attacks(John Brown’s attack at Pottawatomie in 1856). /
The war continued for four years before the anti-slavery forces won. /
This violence helped precipitate the Civil War. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise. /
Established a doctrine of congressional nonintervention in the territories. /
Popular sovereignty would determine if Kansas and Nebraska would be free or slave states. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
A Missouri slave sued for his freedom. /
He claimed his four year stay in the Northern portion of the Louisiana territory was made free land by the Missouri Compromise causing him to become a free man. /
The United States Supreme Court decided he could not sue in the federal court because he was property and not a citizen. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln (a republican) won and became president. /
The issues were slavery in the territories. /
Lincoln opposed adding any slave states.
