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Missouri Compromise
The Northern and Southern states held debates over the growth of slavery, Henry Clay settled the debate, The Missouri Compromise put a line through the union and all states below the line would be slave and all above would be free. -
Nullification Crisis
Southern states felt that the tariffs only favored the North. Vice President John C. Calhoun said any state could nullify a federal law it considers unconstitutional.
the federal government denied South Carolina’s argument, South Carolina threatened to secede. Henry Clay once again made a compromise that lowered the trriffs -
Compromise of 1850
congress had many debates as to whether the new territories won from Mexico would be admitted as slave states or free states. Henry Clay came up with that California would be admitted as a free state and would ban slave trade in Washington DC. andc ongress would not pass laws banning slavery from the rest of the territories -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850 by the Congress. The act permitted the capture of African-Americans who had fled to the north, These laws increased tension, and set the stage for John Brown's Raid and the American Civil War. -
Bleeding Kansas
5000 people from nearby proslavery Missouri came and voted for proslavery representatives in Kansas illegally.
people who opposed slavery started their own government.
The anti-slavery government was attacked by proslavery forces.
To avenge this attack, extreme abolitionist John Brown murdered several of his proslavery neighbors -
Dread Scott Decision
Dread Scott was a slave who lived in illinois. He also lived in Wisconsin and then he moved back to missouri. All blacks slaves as well as free were not ever to become US citizens. The court declared the Missouri Compromise uncontitutional. Slavery was allowed in any parts of the Country. -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
John Brown wanted to inspire slaves to fight for their freedom, he wanted to capture weapons at an army base in Harpers Ferry, Virginia to arm the slaves.
Brown and his men were captured,
Abolitionists were pleased at the efforts of John Brown as he was put to death, the issue of slavery had raised tensions in America -
The Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln won the election.
Southern states began to secede from the Union shortly after Lincoln is elected.
