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A proposal to ban slavery in the land that was acquired during the Mexican American war. It was unsuccessful.
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It was five bills passed that settled arguments between slave and free states over territories.
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a decision made in the dred scott case that stated that slave owners could bring their slaves in the western territory.
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It was a anti-slaver novel that described how wrong slavery was.
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A law passed that said people in Kansas and Nebraska could choose if they wanted slaver or not.
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John brown lead a few friends and family members out to a creek to murder five men that were pro slavery.
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Debates against Abraham Lincoln and Stephan A. Douglas to be the United States Senate for Illinois.
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John brown initiated a conflict that led to a fight in Virginia. He wanted to abolish slavery.
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He was the first republican elected and he was in support of the abolitionist.
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South Carolina decided to succeed from the union. Although the president said it was illegal he did not try to stop it.
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The dominate slaves in the south created there own government with the president being Jefferson Davis.
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Confederate guns fired at fort Sumter and it had to be evacuated.