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The Missouri Crisis
The Missouri crisis occurred in1819 where unemployment mounted, banks failed, mortgages were foreclosed, and agricultural prices fell by half. (R) -
Compromise of 1820
A U.S. federal statute that regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana territory, except within the proposed state of Missouri. (B) -
William Garrison Publishes The Liberator
A man by the name of William Garrison published an anti-slavery newspaper known as "The Liberator".(R) -
Nat Turner's Slave Revolt
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed multiple people as a result of the oppression that they faced. (R) -
Texas Annexation of 1844
The United States Congress passed a "Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States" and Texas was subsequently admitted it to the Union as the 28th state. (R) -
The Wilmot Proviso
A declaration that was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War. (R) -
Fugative Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. This was enacted by Congress in 1793, the first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight. (R) -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century enslaved people of African descent, in efforts to escape to freedom.(R) -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848).(B) -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that depicted the reality of slavery. The south took this as a threat.(R) -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Southern Yankees". (R) -
Formation of The Republican Party
The Republican Party was formed and established as a political party.(R) -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This was an act passed by the U.S. Congress that allowed peoplein the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.(B) -
Dredd Scott Supreme Court Decision
The Dredd Scott Supreme Court decision was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law. It held that "a negro, whose ancestors were imported into, and sold as slaves", whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.(R) -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party Canidate about major issues including slavery.(B) -
John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.(R) -
Election of 1860
American Presidential election, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln won. (R)
