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Missouri Compromise
-North and South Fighting More Over Slavery
-Created by Henry Clay
-Maine=Free
-Arkansas=Slave
-Maintained Balance Between North (Free) and South (Slave) -
Nullification Crisis
-South Carolina thought tariff laws of 1828 and 1832 were unfair and supported the North
-Vice President John C. Calhoun supported states nullifying federal laws they considered unconstitutional
-Federal government denied South Carolina's right to nullify
-South Carolina threatened to secede
-Henry Clay created a compromise that lowered the tariff -
Compromise of 1850
-After Mexican-American War
-Debates over if new territory should be free or slave states
-Henry Clay created the compromise
-California=Free
-No Slave Trade in Washington D. C.
-Congress can't ban slavery -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
-Permitted Americans to Capture and Return Escaped Slaves in the North
-Convinced Many Abolitionists that Extreme Measures were Needed to End Slavery in America -
Bleeding Kansas
-5000 People Came from Missouri to Vote For Slavery in Kansas Illegally
-Kansas ended up being a slave state
-Abolitionists started their own government
-The Government fought the Abolitionists's Government
-John Brown murders Supporters of Slavery -
Dred Scott Decision
-Dred Scott tried to sue for his freedom.
-Lived in a Free Territory
-Supreme Court Ruled:
~Scott was still a slave
~African Americans are not considered citizens, since they weren't considered citizens during the writing of the Constitution
~Dred Scott was still property and couldn't be freed without due process of law -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
-John Brown wanted to inspire slaves to fight
-Planned to capture the arsenal to arm the slaves
-Harpers Ferry, Virginia
-No slaves came
-Brown was captured and killed
-Abolitionists saluted John Brown -
Election of 1860
-Abraham Lincoln becomes president
-South doesn't trust him and his promises to not end slavery
-Marks the beginning of Southern states seceding
