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The compromise of 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. -
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act began a chain of events in the Kansas Territory that foreshadowed the Civil War.Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri Compromise, which had kept the Union from falling apart for the last thirty-four years. The long-standing compromise would have to be repealed. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Also know as the Border War was a series of violent civil confortation in Kansas Territory, United States. Kansas Admitted to the union as a free state. -
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Dred Scott v Sandford
Often referred to as the Dred Scott decision was a landmark of the u.s Supreme Court in which court held that the u.s was not meant to. -
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Lincoln Douglas Debates
Was a debated series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, The Republican Party candidate for the United States senate from Illinois. -
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John’s Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry
Led a small army of 18 men into a small town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the south. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal. -
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Election of Abraham Lincoln
Was elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, beck,Kong the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 precent of the popular vote but handly defeated the three other candidates.