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Missouri Compromise
A law passed under the president James Monro it establishes Missouri as part of the union and a slave state. This also made Manie a Free state and established north of the 36 30 line for all future states established from the territory in the Louisiana purchase. This act was later deemed unconstitutional in the Dread Scott case and increased conflict leading to the civil war. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Enslaved people from Virginia rose up agents their slaveholders and killed between 55 and 65 white people. After the rebellion, angry white mobs begin to accuse murder and arrest, innocent enslaved people killing around 200 black slaves. The set harsher and more strict laws against slaves like no education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people. This also added to the views racist whites with political cartoons, depicting the massacre. -
The “Gag” Rule
A rule that prohibits the topic of anti slavery in in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844. The rules made because Congress constantly got stuck on the topic of slavery, they could not address other pressing topics. All antislavery petitions received by the House would be automatically tabled. This rule allowed the topic of slavery to continue to bubble up into more of a problem and eventually the Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850
Inconsistent of five laws to be passed, It dealt with slavery and territorial expansion. First was the name California as a free state next with his tablet for border between Texas and the United States. The abolition of slave trade in Washington D.C. Provide territorial ground for Utah and New Mexico, and lastly to amend the fugitive slave act. -
Fugitive Slave Act
An act that requires escaped slave to be returned to their owner, even if they were in a non slave state. This caused a lot of confusion on who was a slave and not. Many African Americans were brought into slavery due to this. In addition, many northern free state citizens disliked the fugitive slave act, because they didn’t believe that they had to deal with this problem that they disagreed with. -
Dred Scott v Stanford
Enslaved black man, Dred Scott, was purchased and later on, lived in Illinois, which is a free state. The argument was wether Dread Scott was a free man when he lived in the free state. The case lasted till 1857 to the outcome of Dred Scott, losing his freedom, along with his wife and two daughters -
Election of 1860
One of the most impactful presidential elections in US history. The election had four different parties namely the republicans with Abraham Lincoln and the constitutional party party with John bell. Abraham emerged victorious in a country in turmoil from slave politics. This will also cause conflict between the northern states in the southern states to do the policies that Abraham Lincoln proposed. -
Crittenden Compromise
The compromise was made of two parts, first being a constitutional amendment to protect slavery from federal institutes. The second was To move the Missouri compromise line. It was rejected by Abraham Lincoln in fear, the US becoming imperial, and would also rise in slaves. Southern states saw this as a loss of the power in the union, causing them to create the confederacy. -
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis was a celebrated war hero from the Mexican war And was later the senator of Mississippi. He then became the president of the Southern confederate states after their succession from the union in 1860 to 1865, he declared war on the union in order to become an independent nation. Jefferson Davis failed to have a strong nation and will eventually lose the Civil War. -
emancipation proclamation
Issued by Abraham Lincoln, it declared “That all persons held as slaves” within rebellious states “are and henceforth shall be free.” It was a military measure the insured enslaved people that this was a war for freedom. It improved the union politically and militarily as more enslaved people join the union.