-
Period: to
19th Century
-
Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay came up with the solution of the Missouri Compromise. This compromise made Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state, in which, helped keep the balance (!2 slave states, 12 free states). -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was introduced by David Wilmot. The Wilmot Proviso banned all slavery in any territory that we have/will obtain(ed) from Mexido, which includes the Mexican Cession. -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay, the authot of the Compromise, came up with the Compromise to make California a free state, enforce the Fugitive Slave Law, Mexican Cession would be divided into two territories, Slave Trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, Texas would claim to parts of the New Mexico territory. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas created this act to form the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for new settlements, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise. -
"Bleeding Kansas"
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. -
Dred Scott Case
In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permiting slavery in all of the country's territories. -
John Brown's Raid
The raid was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accompanied by 20 men in his party, was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee.
