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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. It involved regulation of slavery in western territories and was an agreement between both anti-slavery and pro-slavery parties. This caused tension between the North and South because more people in the south were pro, whereas many people in the North were anti-slavery -
Indian Removal Bill
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. The Indian Removal Act was passed in 1930 but plans for this 'forced relocation' began in the early 1800s. The Indian Removal Act was passed on April 24th, 1830 by the Senate. The vote was 28 in favor and 19 opposing. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. Rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white. Turner was a religious man, deeply impacted by the religious revival of the Second Great Awakening, who believed he had been chosen by God to start a slave revolt. -
Mexican War
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848. The United States won the war and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. tensions created by the Compromise of 1850, which was passed because of the results of the Mexican-American War, helped create the conditions for the Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. The Compromise of 1850 increased tensions between the North and the South because the North refused to enforce the Fugitive slave Act. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. The issue of slavery caused tension between the North and the South. Many Northerners who opposed slavery took a less extreme position. Some Northern workers and immigrants opposed slavery because it was an economic threat to them. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War" When slaves escaped from the South, they used the underground railroad which headed North because in the North slave was illegal. Rising anger over slavery increased tensions between the North and the South and led to violence. -
"bleeding Kansas"
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent civil confrontations in th United States between 1854 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. The admittance of Kansas as a slave state or free state was at the heart of the controversy. Territory north of the 36°30 line was now open to popular sovereignty. The North was outraged.The Kansas-Nebraska act made it possible for the Kansas and Nebraska territories to open to slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and President Franklin Pierce. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°. Those from the North generally opposed slavery in Kansas. The turmoil in Kansas contributed to the growing tension between the North and the South, which eventually led to the outbreak of the Civil War. -
Brooks Attacks Sumner
The Caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate when Representative Preston Brooks used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist, in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. The only real impact of the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas was that they put Lincoln on the national "map" as a major political figure. The debates were staged as part of a race between the two men for a seat in the US Senate. Douglas won the election. -
Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene. South used the John Brown raid to make the point, The abolitionists and their supporters would threaten this institution of slavery. -
Election of 1860
The United States Presidential Election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. The presidential election of 1860 was a turning point in the struggle between northern and southern states over the slavery issue. The events of the previous ten years had increased tensions between the North and the South. Arguments became more heated over the fugitive slave laws.
