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The Missouri Crisis
Tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery. Missouri made a request for admission to the Union as a slave state. (red) -
Missouri Compromise of 1820
In response to the large increase of U.S. territories as a result of the Louisiana Purchase, this compromise provided that for every new free state added to the Union, a slave state would be added. (blue) -
William Garrison Publishes The Liberator
The Liberator was a newspaper written by William Garrison, an abolitionist, who was against slavery. (red) -
Nat Turner's Slave Revolt
A slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. It had the highest number of fatalities ever caused by a slave uprising in the South. (red) -
Texas Annexation
Texas was admitted to the U.S. as the 28th state, which led to war with Mexico. They gained independence from Mexico in 1836. -
The Wilmot Proviso
Proposed a law to ban slavery in any territory that was acquired from Mexico. (red) -
Fugitve Slave Law
The law passed by Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850 that was between the people for slavery of the South and the people against slavery of the North. (red) -
Compromise of 1850
This compromise consisted of laws that admitted California as a free state, and making Utah and New Mexico into territories. This decreased the tension because these territories and this state were in the west. (blue) -
Publification of Uncle Tom's Cabin
This novel, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was about anti-slavery. It helped lay the groundwork of the Civil War. (red) -
Underground Railroad
A network of secret routes and safe houses that slaves used to escape to free states. (red) -
Formation of the Republican Party
Whigs that were against slavery met together in Wisconsin. The Civil War recognized that the Republican Party as the victorious party of the North. (red) -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The act that allowed the people of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they want to allow slavery. This act increased the tension because they had a right to choose slavery or ban it. (blue) -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery. (red) -
Dredd Scott Supreme Court Decision
Dredd Scott was a slave and he started a case that the Court affirmed, being that slave owners had the right to take their slaves into Western territories. This increased tension because he was a free slave and made a powerful decision relating to slavery. (red) -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
A series of seven debates about the sectional conflicts. (red) -
John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry
An effort by John Brown, an abolitionist, to start a slave revolt on Harper's Ferry. (red) -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln won this election. This election increased tension because the south wanted to keep slavery, but they knew Lincoln would ban it. (red)
