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Missouri Compromise
Congress passed a bill approving Missouri state as a slave state, under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase. The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819, which supported slavery. At the time, United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. Admission of Missouri as a slave state would upset that balance. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States. -
How Texas became Texas....
In 1844, Congress finally agreed to add the territory of Texas. On December 29, 1845, Texas entered the United States as a slave state, broadening the irrepressible differences in the United States over the issue of slavery and setting off the Mexican-American War. -
Mexican/American War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War, the U.S.–Mexican War, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848.After Texas gained its independence from Mexico in 1836. Initially, the United States declined to incorporate it into the union, largely because northern political interests were against the addition of a new slave state. Finally, the Mexicans and Americans went to war that lasted 2 years. -
Treaty of Guadalupe De Hidalgo
The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The war officially ended February 2, 1848, signing in Mexico of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. -
Compromise of 1850
The War was resolved in the Compromise of 1850. It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former’s favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. Enacted by Congress in 1793, the first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight. Widespread resistance to the 1793 law later led to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which added further notices on runaways. -
Kansas Nebraska At
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 may have been the single most significant event leading to the Civil War. By the early 1850's settlers and entrepreneurs wanted to move into the area now known as Nebraska. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott case was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law. It held that "a negro, whose ancestors were imported into, and sold as slaves" whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States. -
John Brown
John Brown was an American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. During the conflict in Kansas, Brown led forces at the Battle of Black Jack and Osawatomie. Brown's followers killed five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie. Brown led an unsuccessful raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry that ended with the multi-racial group's capture. Brown's trial resulted in his conviction and death by hanging. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern yankees" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861, including "Bleeding Congress".
