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William Garrison Publishes The Liberator
The publication reached thousands of people worldwide not just in America. He was loved and hated by multiple people because of his firm position on the moral outrage of slavery. This increased the tension because multiple people hated him and his workers because he was against slavery and he burned the constitution. (red) -
Missouri Compromise
This is the balancing of both free and slave states. Maine is a free state. Missouri has a boundary line where half of the area is slave state and half is a free state. This decreased the tension between the north and south because they were balanced. (Blue) -
The Missouri Crisis
Voting along ominously sectional lines, the House approved this very moderate amendment, but the Senate defeated it. Compromise ultimately resolved the crisis. In 1820, Congress voted to admit Missouri as a slave state. -
Underground Railroad
This was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves in an effort to escape to free states and Canada with the help of abolitionists and allies. This increased tension between the northern and southern states because slaves would escape from the south and then would get caught in the northern states and they wouldn't return to their owners. (red) -
Nat Turner's Slave Revolt
He led a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States. Tension was increased because of abolitionist got laws passed and were able to voice their views of slavery which increased the tension between the North and the South. (red) -
Texas Annexation
This is was the incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state . -
Wilmot Proviso
This was designed to eliminate all of slavery within the land because of the Mexican war. This increased the tension between the north and south because the position Calhoun gave him the power to propose different resolutions even though the northerns were still fighting for freedom for slaves. (red) -
Compromise of 1850
This was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which restrained a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories. The tension between both northern and southern states increased because the compromise left an unbalanced power between the two sides. (red) -
Fugitive Slave Laws
The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. It increased the tension between the north and south because the slaves would escape and other people would steal their slaves.(Red) -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
This is an antislavery novel that laid out the base for the civil war. The increased the tension between the northerns and southerns because this is what caused multiple disagreements and the civil war(. red) -
Formation of the Republican Party 1854
There was an anti-slavery meeting between the Whigs to discuss the formation of a new party. In Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, there was meeting that founded the Republican Party. This decreased the tension between the northern and southern states because republicans gained many supporters from the north. (blue) -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This increased tension between the two areas because the pro-slavery and anti-slavery were upset which cause violence. (Red) -
Bleeding Kansas
It was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery free-Staters and pro-slavery, or southern yankees elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861. (red) -
Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision
The jury ruled 7–2 that Dred Scott who resided in a free state and territory where slavery were prohibited was not thereby entitled to his freedom. This caused the tension between the northern and southern states to increase because this decision enraged many abolitionists. (Red) -
Lincoln douglas debates
This was a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. This increased the tension between the two areas because the northerns were still heated by slavery. (red) -
John Brown's Raid AT Harper's Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. This increased the tension between the North and the South because he opposed slavery and believed he should be the one to stop it. (red) -
Election of 1860
Republican, Abraham Lincoln, defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. This increased the tension between the north and the south because the South didn't want Abraham Lincoln to become president because they knew he would abolish slavery. (red)
