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Missouri Compromise
the U.S. Congress admitted Missouri to the Union as a state that allowed slavery, and Maine as a free state. It also banned slavery from the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands located north of the 36º 30’ parallel (the southern border of Missouri). -
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Dred scott v. Sandford
Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843 in Illinois (a free state) and in Louisiana Territory, where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. After returning to Missouri, Scott filed suit in Missouri court for his freedom, claiming that his residence in free territory made him a free man. Scott's master maintained that no “negro” or descendant of slaves could be a citizen in the sense of Article III of the Constitution. -
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WIlmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the MexicanAmerican War. Slavery emerged as a issue between the North and South because different economic realities prevailed in the different regions. The North’s economy was focused on industry and manufacturing crops like tobacco and cotton were big money for white Southerners.Pennsylvania people were growing wheat Wheat not as labor-intensive as cash crops -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was made up of five bills that tried to disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States in the Mexican-American War . It made California a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide whether to be a slave state or a free state, defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary, and made it easier for slave owners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabins is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book showed the reality and brutality of slavery and explained that christian love and hope could overcome slavery and all that comes with it. uncle tom was a slave who had suffered for many years due to slavery. His testimony in the book helped to limit some of the stereotypes on african american men and women. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
In the 1850's Nebraska was more of a territory containing today's Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, and the Dakotas. The territory was unorganized and had no official government which caused problems for slavery. Steph douglas presented the idea of popular sovereignty which allowed the people to have more say in who is in office to make the big decisions. The issue was that slave states were increasing over free states which means the slave states had more power. -
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John Brown's Raid
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. It has been called the dress rehearsal for, or Tragic Prelude to the Civil War -
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The Election of 1860
This is the election that pitted Abraham Lincoln, a republican representative, over democratic (southern) representatives John Breckinridge and John Bell. Significant because the presidential elect would bring a national crisis that needed patriotism and bravery. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter
April 12. At 4:30 a.m., a flaming mortar shot arcs into the air and explodes over Fort Sumter. On this signal, the battle begins from confederate soldiers. The other side (SC Military) was severely outmanned, and outgunned and gave up two days later. The battle started when abraham lincoln Announced that he would resupply the fort, so the confederates bombed it.