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Missouri Compromise
Who: the north states, the south states and the federal goverment
what: legislation that admitted Maine to the United States as a free state, simultaneously with Missouri as a slave state
where, Main Missouri
why, to maintain the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate
how, it shows the power struggle and the growing divide in the us -
Wilmot Proviso
who: David Wilmot, the senate, and the house of representatives
what: David Wilmot unsuccessfuly proposed in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican American War
Where: District of Colombia
why: to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican American War
how: it impacted history by showing the south that the north may want to take away there slaves -
Compromise of 1850
who:The senate, House of representatives
what:five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican American War.
where: District of Colombia
why: to defuse a political confrontation between slave and free state
how: it shows the attempts to squash the divide -
Fugitive Slave Act
who, The north states, and the South States and congress
what: The Fugitive Slave Act was passed and required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate
Where: District of Colombia
Why: Because before all slaves had to do was escape to the north to be free and now the south was cracking down
How: It shows that now the north now has to peripatetic in slavery wich the north hates -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
who: Harriet Beecher Stowe
what: The book uncles tom's cabin was written which describes the horrors and abuse slaves felt on the daily
Where: the southern US
Why: Because Harriet was a big abolitionist for slavery
How: this book helped strenthen the conflict between the north and south -
Kansas Nebraska Act/ Bleeding Kansas
who: abolitionist ,anti-abolitionist
what: a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas
where: Kansas
why: Because of the flood of anti abolitionist and abolitionist into the state of Kansas
How: it Shows how the divide is gotten is big that Americans and Americans are fighting each other -
Dred Scott Case
who: Dred Scott, Sandford supreme court
what:a Supreme court case ruled in favor of a slave owner who's slave made the argument that because he was in Illinois as a slave he was free
where: Illinois
Why: because he and his slave owner entered Illinois
How: it showed that even in the north slaves cant be free
