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Compromise of 1850
Package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War -
Publication Of Uncle Tom's Cabin
An Anti-Slavery Novel
Helped Popularize a number of stereotypes about black people -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement -
Bleeding Kansas
Violent Political Confrontations Involving Anti-Slavery Free Slavery And Pro Slavery Elements That Took Place In The Kansas Territory -
Brooks/Sumner Affair (Violence in Congress)
Pro-slavery congressman Preston Brooks attacked antislavery Senator Charles Sumner on floor of Senate -
Dred Scott Decision
People of African Decent were protected by the Constitution and were not U.S. Citizens -
John Brown's Raid
An attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859 -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln V.S. John C. Breckinridge V.S. John Bell V.S. Stephen A. Douglas
Lincoln Won The Election
