-
Missouri Crisis
Missouri wants to become a free state.
Increased because it brought up issue of slave states and free states.
(R) -
Missouri compromise of 1820
Admitted Missouri as a slave state, and Maine as a free state.
Increased tension because it threatened the balance of power in the senate.
(R) -
William Garrison Publishes THE LIBERATOR
An anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison.
Decreased tension because it had nothing to do with it.
(B) -
Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt
Slave revolt by Nat Turner killing 55 white people.
Increased because the slaves killed 55 people.
(R) -
Texas Annexation of 1844
Texas admitted to union as 28th state
Decreased tension because it focused on texas
(B) -
The Wilmot Proviso
Bill that said slavery shall ever exist in any territory gained from Mexico.
Increased tension because it would’ve banned slavery.
(R) -
Compromise of 1850
Forestalled the Civil War by instating the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and instating popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession.
Increased tension because it focused mainly on the laws of slavery
(R) -
Fugitive Slave Law
A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders
Increased tension because north thought slavery wasn't right
(R) -
Publication of UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
Anti Slavery book, southerners hated it, made north skeptical
Increased tension because it gave a viewpoint on slavery
(R) -
Formation of the Republican Party 1854
Political group founded in 1954 as a group supporting anti-slavery.
Decreased tension because south wasn’t involved.
(R) -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
Wanted to decrease tension but instead increased the violence over slavery.
(R) -
Bleeding Kansas
Series of violent events that had a major impact on the civil war
Increased because 56 people died and it brought violence between the border between kansas and Missouri
(R) -
Dredd Scott Supreme Court Decision
Decision meant that all territories were opened up to slavery once again; Northern lawmakers would not be able to keep slavery out of the territories.
Increased tension because it said that he would be a slave wherever he went, but the north was free.
(R) -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
Seven debates involving Ab Lincoln trying to win senate
Increased tension because it brought attention to slavery expansion
(R) -
John Brown’s Raid at Harper’s Ferry
Brown wanted freedom so he lead a attack on HF to arm slaves and start a revolt.
Increased tension because north wanted south to revolt but the south was nervous.
(R) -
Underground railroad
System of escape routes and hiding places for runaway slaves
Increased because south didn’t want runaway slaves escaping
(R) -
Election of 1860
Lincoln won because the south was split between slavery’
Increased because the democratic party split into two
(R)
