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Missouri compromise
The Missouri compromise was congress keeps slave states and free states fair. The made Missouri a slave state and made Maine a free state in 1820. The also created a line across the Louisiana territory. Anything above the territory was a free state and anything below was a slave state. This happened because the tension between slave and free states. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. The conflict over the Wilmot proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. Wilmot tried to get the law to pass in 1846. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of ideas on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
fugitive slave act
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free slaves. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves. -
Uncle toms cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852. It got more people to help the cause against slavery and help stop it. It showed the worst of slavery -
Kansas Nebraska Act / Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 -
Dred Scott Case
This happened in 1856 and dred scott was kept as a slave in a free state. So he tried to sew for his freedom when his master died. But the federal court couldn’t do anything. Some people say they made their worst decision -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
The Lincoln–Douglas debates 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 candidate. Lincoln ended up losing in the end but he made good points about slavery -
John Brown’s Raid
John Brown's raid or The raid on Harper's Ferry) was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He wanted to bring war to the slave owners -
Southern Secession
It was when the south left the united states. First the south Carolina left then 7 other states left because Lincoln got in office. This happened 1860. The south wanted no part in Lincoln being president -
Lincoln’s Election of 1860
The United States Presidential Election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. The election of Lincoln served as the primary catalyst of the American Civil War.
