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Missouri Compromise
*The North and South had many disagreements about slavery.
*Henry Clay solved the debates about slavery.
*The Missouri Compromise was a set of laws that balanced the amount of slave states and free states. -
Nullification Crisis
*The South thought that the tarrifs were not fair and were favored to the North.
*John C. Calhoun said any state has the right to nullify a federal law if it's unconstitutional.
*The government did not allow South Carolina's right to nullify so they threatened to secede.
*Henry Clay made a compromise and the tariff was lowered -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
*The Fugitive Slave Act was passed by Congress in 1850. It allowed slaves that escaped to be captured in the North and be brought back to the South.
*This law made things between the North and South more tense and was the one of the causes of the Civil War and John Brown's raid. -
Compromise of 1850
*Congress had debates about whether or not the territories from Mexico would be free or slave states.
*Henry Clay made a compromise to solve the problem.
*California would be a free state and Congress would not pass any laws banning slavery in the rest of the territories. -
Bleeding Kansas
*5000 people from Missouri who supported slavery came to Kansas and voted for representatives who also supported slavery in Kansas illegally.
*The people who were against slavery started their own government.
*The anti-slavery gornment was attacked by those who supported slavery.
*After this event John Brown recruited his sons and killed a few pro-slavery supporters. -
Dred Scott Decision
*The court decided that Dred Scott was not free when he was in Illinois or Wisconsin where his owner was a lot, because he was not considered a person in the Constitution because African Americans were not considered citizens when the Constitution was written.
*This decision made Abolitionists furious and caused even more tension between the North and the South. -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
*John Brown wanted slaves to fight for their freedom. He planned to capture the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia to arm the slaves so they could defend themselves.
*John and his men were captured, but anti-slavery supporters supported him when he was about to be killed and it raised tension in the U.S. -
The Election of 1860
- Abraham Lincoln won the Election of 1860 even though he never said what his thoughts were on slavery. *After he was elected for office more and more Southern states started to secede the United States because they did not like Lincoln.
