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Missouri Compromise
On march 3,1820, congress passed a bill that welcomed Missouri as a slave state. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry (John Brown)
john brown ride to Harper ferry to try to start a slave revolt.But he and his sons were stop by the southerns. -
Compromise of 1850
In the Compromise of 1850 the Fugitive Slave Act and the the slave tared stop in Washington D.C. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the people living in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide weather to by a slave or non-slave state. -
“Bleeding Kansas”-Sacking of Lawrence
pro-slavery activists, led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones, attacked and ransacked Lawrence, Kansas Border ruffians -
Dred Scott Decision
Sanford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom Martyr -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats.Secession -
Election of Lincoln
By the time of Lincoln's inauguration seven states had seceded, and the Confederate States of America had been formally established, with Jefferson Davis as its elected president. -
Lincoln Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the United States. In his inauguration speech Lincoln extended an olive branch to the South, but also made it clear that he intended to enforce federal laws in the states that seceded.State’s rights -
Attack on Fort Sumter
the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.
