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Events Leading up to the Civil War
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Missouri Compromise
Representative James Tallmadge of New York introduced a bill that would admit Missouri into the union as a state where slavery was prohibited. -
Wilmot proviso
rider on a $2,000,000 appropriations bill intended for the final negociations to resolve the Mexican - American War. -
Compromise of 1850
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. -
“Bleeding Kansas”
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. -
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 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty. -
Dred Scott Case
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. -
John Brown’s Raid
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
