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The Missouri Compromise
Congress reached the Missouri Compromise because after 1803 Louisiana Purchase congress set up a policy, Missouri sparked a bitter national debate. They set up a line to dividing north and south as free and slave. It's hushed indeed for the moment but it will mark it deeper and deeper. Link text -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
A slave who named Nat Turner incited an uprising in August of 1831. He killed around sixty white people with about seventy cohorts. Solders stopped them, but small scale slave uprising were still fairly common in the American south. Enter Link text -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dred Scott was a Virginia slave who tried to sue for his freedom in court, but the justices found he was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights. This made the federal goverment's authority to regulate the institution much more ambigous -
John Brown’s Raid
John Brown distribute them to southern slaves in order to spark a wracking series of slaves uprisings. He was tried for treason and upon his execution. He become a martyr for the ablitionist. Enter Link text -
The Battle of Fort Sumter
On April 12, 1861, Confederate warships turned back the supply convoy to Fort Sumter and opened a 34-hour bombardment on the stronghold. The garrison surrendered on April 14.
