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Missouri Compromise
In 1819 Missouri wanted to enter the Union as a slave state.It outlawd slavery about the 36'30' lattitude line in the Louisiana Territory.Missiouri to enter as a slave state and the aine entered as a free state,maintaining a balance in numbers of free and slave states. Slavery was prohibited in new states north of the southern border of Missouri for climate,soil and growing of cotton,the southern slave states accepted this. -
Mexican War
The US gained a great deal of lad of Mexico at the end of Mexico War by taking all this land,the issue of bringing in ore slave states and more free states stoked again.For CA to be admitted as a free soil,Congress had to appease the South by agreeing to employ official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways and return them to their owns.The Northern States wanted them free and the South wanted them to allow slavery.The annexation of Texas. -
Compromise Of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 dterined the new states would be slave-free,and the slave trade was also abolished in Washington,D.C and making it easier for southerns to recover fugitive slaves.California would be admitted as a free state.Any proposal that threatened this balance of free and slave states would almost certainly not win.The compromise settled the issues of the number of slave states and free states but it lead to the fugitive slave act. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers as part of the Compromise of 1850.It required Northern states to strongly support efforts of Southern slave owners who came to claim ruaways.The fugitive slave act made abolitionists to work harder against the issue of slavery and the underground railroad was more active. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.Popular sovereigny allowing settlers of territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders.It permitted the expansion of slavery beyond the Southern States.It also sparked the formation of the Republic party. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott was a slave who sought his freedom through the American legal system.He argued that his master, John Emerson, escorted him onto free soil in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory,had legally granted him freedom. In 1857, the case reached the United States Supreme Court.
Northern abolitionists were outraged. The Dred Scott case became a rallying point for them and contributed to the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860. -
The Election of 1860
The Election of 1860 contributed to Civil War because after President Abraham Lincoln was elected he stated that where slavery existed it can continue,but he will not allow it to spread every where. The whole USA is what mainly started the Civil War was the South seceding.He would fight to keep the South.The Northerners were soldiers on Southern Land & that is when the Civil War started. The Civil War was the bloodiest & the only war on the Land of America. -
Eancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Lincoln during the Civil War so that slaves would be free.The only slaves that were affected by this were the ones in the United States,not the ones in the Confederacy.All person held as slaves within the US and that slaves should be in the rebellion against the United states and they should be free from slavery,and gain forever freedom.His goal was to turn the war from political focus to a morally based focus. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny created a surge aong Americans to xpand westward.The new lands were being settled and eventually pushed to become part of the Union.The North & South debate whether or not these new states would be slave states or free states.The issue of the expansion of slavery beyond the South which helped increase slavery in the North.It caused problem between the North & South to disagree over whether the new territory should be free or slave.
