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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850, proposed by Henry Clay in January 1850, guided to passage by Douglas over Northern Whig and Southern Democrat opposition, and enacted September 1850. -
The Mexican War
A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a series of U.S. victories. When the dust cleared, Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. -
Westward Expansion
President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
he Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. Enacted by Congress in 1793, the first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners -
John C Calhoun
John C. Calhoun was a prominent U.S. statesman and spokesman for the slave-plantation system of the antebellum South. As a young congressman from South Carolina, he helped steer the United States into war with Great Britain and established the Second Bank of the United States. -
Nashville Convention
The United states decides to band slavery to the new territories being added to the country as a result of westward expansion. -
California Becomes the 31frst state
after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, nonslavery state by the Compromise of 1850. -
Fugitive slave law
It required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to follow by this law. -
John Brown's Harper's Ferry
October 1859, the U.S. military arsenal at Harpers Ferry was the target of an assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown. He was captured during the raid -
Uncle Toms Log Cabin
the Civil War rose from a mixture of causes including regional conflicts between North and South, economic forces, and concerns for the welfare of enslaved people.
