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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was the event that had been lead up to determine the slave states and free states. -
Nat Turner slave rebellion
American slave name Nathaniel "Nat" turner led the largest slave uprising in U.S history which took place at Southampton county, Virginia. Nat and 70 of his followers killed over 50 white people including women and children. This rebellion later resulted in harsher laws against slaves. Which later was one of the leading causes to civil war. -
Mexican American war
Mexico and the United states of America went to war due the annexation of Texas and boundary dispute. The war was fought primarily in northeastern and central Mexico.resulted in a peace treaty "the treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo " which had ultimately ended the war, and later led up to the compromise of 1850. -
compromise of 1850
The compromise has been the problem with slavery as well as California wanting to be a free state in the union. The compromise was the fact that there was trying to be a separation between the North and the South. Intending to balance the amount of free states and slave states.it also passed the fugitive slave act and made new Mexico and Utah slave territory by popular sovereignty -
The Fugitive Slave Act
As part of the compromise of 1850 it required that all escaped slaves to be captured and returned to their slave owners and the citizens of the free state are required to cooperate in this law. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was the battle between the proslavery and the anti slavery in 1856. There was new territory being fought under control of doctrine from popular sovereignty. As well as the self government arrest of fanaticism. -
Dred Scott Vs Sanford
Dred Scott was a Virginia slave who tried to sue for his freedom in court. The case eventually rose to the level of the Supreme Court, where the justices found that, as a slave, Dred Scott was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights or recognitions afforded to a human being.
The Dred Scott Decision threatened to entirely recast the political landscape that had therefore led to civil war. -
John Brown's raid
.John Brown led a small army of 18 men to raid small a town called Harpers Ferry his plan was to instigate a slave rebellion in the south by seizing the arms ammunition and by attacking Harpers Ferry . the planned failed,however succeeded by sparking the civil war -
Abbraham Lincoln's Election
Abraham Lincoln was elected by a considerable amount in 1860 despite not being included on many Southern ballots. As a Republican, his party’s anti-slavery outlook struck fear into many Southerners. On December 20, 1860, a little over a month after the polls closed, the southern states such as South Carolina issue their Declaration of the causes of secession, giving the reason seceded from the Union. Six more states followed by the spring of 1861 forming confederate states.
