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John Brown
John Brown was a radical abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of the slavery system.he had succeeded in enlisting a small “army” of insurrectionists, including three of his sons, whose mission was to foment rebellion among the slaves.News of the raid electrified the North and outraged the white South. Brown was tried and convicted of treason.Brown was captured during the raid and later hanged. -
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Nat Turner
He was a black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion in U.S. history. An insurrection was planned when he and six other slaves killed the Travis family, managed to secure arms and horses, and enlisted about 75 other slaves in a disorganized insurrection that resulted in the murder of 51 white people. Turner hid nearby successfully for six weeks until his discovery, conviction, and hanging at Jerusalem, Virginia. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri for admission as a state in which slavery would be allowed. The United States had 22 states evenly divided between slave and free. Three years later, the Supreme Court declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, on the ground that Congress was prohibited by the Fifth Amendment from depriving individuals of private property without due process of law. -
Texas becomes a state of USA
The likelihood of Texas joining the Union as a slave state delayed any formal action by the U.S. Congress for more than a decade. Six months after the congress of the Republic of Texas accepts U.S. annexation of the territory, Texas is admitted into the United States as the 28th state.Texas entered the United States as a slave state, broadening the irrepressible differences in the United States over the issue of slavery and setting off the Mexican-American War. -
Mexican American War
Mexican cavalry attacked a group of US soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor,killing about a dozen.Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.When Polk's offer to purchase some land was rejected,he instigated a fight by moving troops into a disputed zone between the Rio Grande and Nueces River that both countries had recognized as part of the Mexican state of Coahuila. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the terms
It is a peace treaty signed between the United States and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War.The treaty called for the U.S. to pay $15 million to Mexico and to pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico up to $3.25 million. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. -
Compromise of 1850
It was a package of five separate bills passed by the U.S Congress which defused a four-year confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican American War.North Gets:California admitted as a free state,Slave trade prohibited in Washington D.C.,Texas loses boundary dispute with New Mexico.South gets:No slavery restrictions in Utah or New Mexico territories,slave holding permitted in Washington D.C,Texas gets $10 million,Fugitive Slave Law -
Kansas - Nebraska Act and why Stephen Douglas proposed it
The act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The anti-slavery settlers held another election, however pro-slavery settlers refused to vote. This resulted in the establishment of two opposing legislatures within the Kansas territory. The territory earned the nickname "bleeding Kansas" as the death toll rose. Just before the start of the Civil War, Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas described the violence during the settling of the Kansas territory.The Kansas Nebraska Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead,using the principle of popular sovereignty,decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free or slave state.Kansas suffered the highest rate of fatal casualties of any Union state because of its great internal divisions over the issue of slavery. -
Dred Scott and his Supreme Court case
Scott argued that his time spent in these locations entitled him to emancipation.The court found that no black, free or slave,could claim U.S. citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom.Arguing that Scott should be freed under the Missouri Compromise because he had traveled north of the 36°30′ line, whereas the Court’s southerners wanted to rule the compromise unconstitutional.The Dred Scott case remained the subject of constitutional/historical debate
