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Wilmot Proviso 1846
Proposed keeping slavery out of new territories. Didn’t pass. Made South mad. Eventually led to the Republican Party. -
1850 Compromisein an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
An attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Fugitive Slave Act
If a runaway slave reached the northern states and was caught or at least found by a northerner, than the northerner would have to return the slave to his master in the south. -
Uncle Toms cabin
Uncle Toms Cabin was a book written about slavery in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It caused the North to be more opposed to slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decided for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
Dred Scott V Sanford
Supreme Court ruled slaves as non US citizens. Could not receive protection from the federal government of the courts. -
Lincoln - Douglas Debates
This event was important to US history, specifically the civil war because the debates between Lincoln and Douglas raised Abe Lincoln’s national profile, making him a viable candidate for the 1860 election. -
Harper’s Ferry
Abolonist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. (Now West Virginia) in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln, from Illinois, ran in the Republican Party, whose platfrom stated that slavery would not spread any father than it had. They wanted to get rid of it. -
Fort Sumter
The first battle marking the start of the Civil war between the north and the south.
