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The Underground Railroad
The underground railroad was a code name for a network of meeting places, secret routes and safe houses used by slaves escaping to northern states or Canada. This event did cause tension between the North and South and was in the North's favor. -
The Missouri Crisis
In 1819, in U.S.A financial panic. Unemployment mounted, banks failed, mortgages were foreclosed, and agricultural prices fell by half. As a result from the panic, their was a storm of popular protests. Many debtors agitated for "stay laws" to delay repayment of debts and for the abolition of debtors' prisons. This probably did cause tensions but was in favor of either. -
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Missouri Compromise was agreed on by both the pro-slavery and anti-slavery states. Congress passed the law in 1820, under the presidency of James Monroe. The Missouri Compromise was made to settle tensions and was neither in favor of the north or south. -
William Garrison Publishes The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison was the voice of Abolitionism. IN 1831 he published the first copy of the Liberator which spoke out against slavery. The Liberator did cause tensions between the North and South because it spoke out against slavery. It was in favor of the North -
Nat Turner's Slave Revolt
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, on August 1831. This rebellion was lead by Nat Turner, and the rebel slaves that followed him killed from 55 to 65 people, which was highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States. Nat turner's Rebellion did cause conflicts between the North and the south because it got the Northern abolishers stirred up and scared the South. Was in favor of the North. -
Texas Annexation of 1844
As more American people settled in Texas the question arose about Texas becoming a state or not.
The South liked the idea of annexing Texas; but the North was strongly opposed to it. Texas represent another slave state, and the nature of Texas society did not appeal to the New Englanders. Texas become a state did cause tensions because the North felt like it was making the South stronger than them. The decision was in the South's favor. -
The Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was created to eliminate slavery within the land acquired from the result of the Mexican War (1846-48). This caused tension between the North and South because the South felt that the North was becoming to powerful. The Wilmot Proviso decision was in favor of the North. -
Compromise of 1850
After the Mexican-American War there were disputes over the new territories. These disputes were settled in the Compromise of 1850. It admitted California as a free state, and said that Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery (it would be determined by popular sovereignty). It also ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. This is cause tensions because the South thought it was in favor of the North. -
Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made the punishments even harsher for runaway slaves and those who helped them. This did cause tensions because the North was against slavery and this Act clearly supported slavery and was in favor of the South. -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
The anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s and published in 1852. The novel had sold 300,000 copies in its first three months after being published. Since this book went against slavery, it caused tensions because the South felt threatened. The book was in the Abolishers (And North's) favor. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a term used for the violent disturbances in the US territory of Kansas from 1854 to 1858. The violence was started by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Bleeding Kansas was a result of tensions between the North and South and wasn't really in favor of either. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act declared that slavery in these states would be decided by “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. The North saw this act as in the South's favor, so it did create conflicts between them. -
Formation of the Republican Party 1854
Former members of the Whig party met in Wisconsin to discuss the formation of a new party which opposed the spread of slavery in the western territories. Since this was clearly against slavery and in the North's favor, it did cause tensions between North and South. -
Dredd Scott Supreme Court Decision
Dredd Scott,was a slave that lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri. He ask the Supreme Court if he could still be free even in this state but the Chief Justice Roger B. declared that all blacks (Free or not) were not and never would become citizens of the United States. This caused tension because it angered the abolishers in the North and was in the South's favor. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of debates between Abraham Lincoln, and Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats. Although Lincoln lost the election, these debates launched him into national prominence which eventually led to his election as President of the United States. This did not really cause any tensions between the North and South. -
John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry
Brown (an abolitionist) and his supporters attacked Garners Ferry and seized the federal armory and arsenal. Brown expected slaves to join him in a rebellion but they did not. Eventually Brown and his supporters were caught and hanged. Would cause tensions because Brown threatened the South. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln ran against Stephen Douglas. While winning a decisive victory in the electoral college, Lincoln only won 40% of the popular vote. Douglas overwhelmingly won the popular vote.
