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1850 compromise.
The 1850 fugitive slave act was an act that made escaped slaves able to be returned to their owners no matter if they escaped to a free state. -
The Great Flood.
Caused extensive damage in the Midwest. And the town of Des Moines is was virtually destroyed. -
Fedrick Douglass.
Gave a speech on the 5th of july asking "what, to the slave is the Fourth of July?" -
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
This was a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and it helped open peoples' eyes to the problems and inhumanities of slavery. -
Kansas Nebraska act.
Created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. -
Bleeding Kansas.
Guerrilla warfare between anti slavery and pro slavery. In all about 55 people were killed. -
Caning of Charles Sumner.
In the United states Senate chamber, Representative Preston Books, a pro-slavery democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner an Abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts. -
Dred Scott decision.
Dred Scott's case held up in court from 1846-1857. In 1857 the Supreme Court made their decision in which in this decision the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. -
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Lincoln - Douglas Debates.
Douglas accusing Lincoln of being an abolitionist while Lincoln accused Douglas of wanting to nationalize slavery. -
South Carolina secedes.
The victory of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election triggered cries for disunion across the slaveholding South. -
John Brown insurrection.
The harper ferry raid was a raid made by John Brown in hopes to steal about 100,000 rifles from the army and distributed them between African Americans and Anti Slavery follower in hopes to overthrow the government. Ultimately John brown and others on the raid were captured and John Brown was sentenced to death.