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Missouri Compromise
Missouri’s application as a slave state started national debate. If Missouri got admitted as a slave state then slave states would have the majority of states. Congress reached an agreement that became known as the Missouri Compromise. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. A line was also drawn along the 36°30' parallel, dividing north and south as free and slave. Pic: https://www.google.com/save/s/list/dI0_5evmQ5OW23cmmztIBg -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
In august of 1831 Turner started an uprising with several plantations in southern virginia. Turner and roughly seventy other slaves killed sixty white men. Militia infantry shut down the rebellion after two days. Fifty-five slaves, including Turner, were tried and executed for their crimes. This uprising caused the Virginia lawmakers to cut back on all of the rights that slaves and free black men held. -
Wilmot-Proviso
This was a piece of legislation proposed by David Wilmot. If it was passed the proviso would of outlawed slavery on US territory. Wilmot spent two years fighting for his plan, but congress never voted it in. Even though this proviso did not get passed it started the first serious discussion about secession. -
Compromise of 1850
This compromise admitted California as a free state and also made the fugitive slave act more strict. The fugitive slave act was a law that compelled northerners to return escaped slaves to the south. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's cabin is a novel wrote by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s. The book explains the life as a slave. Being the second best selling book in the 19th century, everybody read it or listened to it, and it really opened up their eyes to the horror of slavery. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dred Scott was a Virginia Slave who tried to sue for his freedom in court. The case went to the supreme court where it was found that where Dred Scott is a slave he is just a piece of property and he has no rights. -
Abraham Lincoln Election
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860. Even though he was not included on several southern ballots. Because he was a republican his party opposed having slavery so this struck fear into many southern farmers. A little over a month when lincoln was elected the first state, South Carolina, succeeded from the union. Followed by 6 more stated in less then six months.