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19th century
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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso, one of the major events leading to the American Civil War would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future,including the area later known as the Mexican Cession, but which some proponents construed to also include the disputed lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande. David Wilmot first introduced the Proviso in the United States House of Representatives -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). proposed by Republican Senator Henry Clay supported by his counterparts Daniel Webster and John Calhoun -
Kansas-Nebraska Act:
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement,and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. the act was designed by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois The result was that pro- and anti-slavery elements flooded into Kansas with the goal of voting slavery up or down, bloody civil war -
Dred Scott Case:
Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom. Dred Scott case occurred at a time when the slavery issue threatened to tear the country apart. United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown led a group of 21 men (16 white and 5 black) across the Potomac River from Maryland to Virginia. United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. The actions of Brown's men brought national attention to the emotional divisions concerning slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. 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
