Nation About to Break

  • Compromise of 1820

    Compromise of 1820
    Slaves couldnt live in the Louisiana purchase but in Mississippi.
  • Free State Slave State

    Free State Slave State
    Congress wanted slave states to stay equal. The southerners wanted to split california into twi half free and half slave sates and north didnt,
  • Wilmont Provisio

    Wilmont Provisio
    This prevented slavery in mexico. Northerners wanted certain slavery only in certain areas where southerners tough of these slaves as property.
  • Free Soil Party

    Free Soil Party
    3rd political party that didnt last very long to oppse the expansion of slavery. With this the southerners want to split california so half was slave and half was free,
  • The Fugitive Slave Act

    The Fugitive Slave Act
    Slave cathers didnt need arrest warrents to determine if they found a runaway.People from the north got held accountable for cathchincg the runaway slaves and they didnt like it,
  • The Compromise of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850
    Califonia became a free and slave trading ended in Washington. Many people on both sides were unhappy with this act because they knew the peace wouldnt last.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    Act to see if kansas is going to be free or slave state. North wanted free and south wanted it to be a slave state.
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act
    Last thing to determine the dividing the country about the slavery issue, Southerners liked this because it repealed the Missouri Compromise and norht didnt and it became violent,
  • Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott Case
    He wanted to be free and when he was in free states his owner wouldnt let him be free,
  • Lincoln-Douglass Debates

    Lincoln-Douglass Debates
    Republicans charged democrates with wanting to make slavery legal in some states.
  • John Brown is Back

    John Brown is Back
    He came back and wanted to start a liberation act against slaves.Northerners celabrated that he stood up for what he believed in and southerners were horrified at the northerners reactin to the death,
  • Election of 1860

    Parties were very divided and there were four canidates and it turned into two elections and Lincoln ran against Douglas and Lincoln won, Northerners won the vote and south held another convention,