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Missouri compromise
In the Missouri Compromise, the main issue was whether new states would be admitted as free or slave states.In the Missouri Compromise, the North and South were impacted differently because it affected the balance of power in Congress. The Missouri Compromise increased tensions by making slavery a national political issue.In the Missouri Compromise, the North and South were impacted differently because it affected the balance of power in Congress. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a result of southern states resistance to imposed, protective tariffs on foreign goods to guard emerging industries. Southern states viewed these tariffs as “unconstitutional”. -
The compromise of 1850
The acts called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act. -
Fugitive slave act.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War". -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It became law on May 30, 1854. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as pro slavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote. -
Bleeding Kansas and the Pottawatomie Massacre
On the night of May 24, 1856, the radical abolitionist John Brown, five of his sons, and three other associates murdered five pro slavery men at three different cabins along the banks of Pottawatomie Creek, near present-day Lane, Kansas. -
Dred Scott Decision
It stated that because Scott was black, he was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue. The decision also declared the Missouri Compromise of 1820, legislation which restricted slavery in certain territories, unconstitutional. -
John Brown’s Raid and Trial
John Brown's raid on Harper Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harper Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia). -
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states had already abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes.