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admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state -
a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County
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prevented consideration of an antislavery proposal by Adams
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unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War -
Harriet, Ben and Henry escaped their Maryland plantation
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the agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a state without slavery. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery -
Life Among the Lowly, novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote. -
Describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas.
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A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional -
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown
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United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election