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Louisiana Purchase
opened a vast area of land that Americans could settle and explore -
War of 1812
trade issues with the British and french as well as native american issues challenged James Madison -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was the Congress ' effort to dismantle the sectional and political rivalries triggered by Missouri's request for admission in 1819 as a state in which slavery would be allowed. At that time, the United States had twenty - two states, divided equally between the free and the slave. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
The rebellion of Nat Turner was a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. Rebel slaves killed between 55 and 65 people, 51 of white at least. The rebellion was brought down in a few days, but Turner remained hidden more than two months later. -
Compromise of 1850
The 1850 compromise was a package of five separate bills passed in September 1850 by the United States Congress, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slaves and free states. -
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. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom 's cabin; or Life Among the Lowly, American author Harriet Beecher Stowe 's novel of anti-slavery. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound impact on African-American attitudes and slavery in the United States. And " helped lay the groundwork for the civil war " is said to have. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854 established the territory of Kansas and Nebraska and was drawn up by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and President Franklin Pierce. -
“Bleeding Kansas”
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent civil conflicts between 1854 and 1861 in the United States that emerged from a political and ideological debate about the legality of slavery in the proposed Kansas state. -
Brooks Attacks Sumner
The Caning of Charles Sumner or the Brooks-Sumner affair took place in the United States Senate on 22 May 1856, when Representative Preston Brooks (D - SC) used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner (R - MA), an abolitionist, in retaliation for a speech made two days earlier by Sumner, in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The debates in Lincoln–Douglas were a series of seven debates between Illinois Republican Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln and Illinois incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group in an attempt to launch an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery in a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia ( West Virginia). -
Election of 1860
The 1860 US presidential election was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to appoint the US president and vice - president.