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Fugitive Slave Law
A law making it a crime to help runaway slaves. The South demanded a better Fugitive slave law because of the loss of slaves from the Underground Railroad. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise presenting that states could now a be a free or nonslave state. Act that superseded, The Missouri Compromise and allowed the territories in that state to decide whether or not they were to be free or slave territories based on popular sovereignty. -
Wilmot Proviso
Bill proposed after the Mexican War that stated that neither slavery no involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any territory gained from Mexico. Leading to the expansion of the Free-Soil party, and political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery and brought slavery to many peoples attention. -
Mexican War
The cause by depute over territory between the two rivers.
Polk puts troops in that territory
congress thinks that what Polk did was justified unlike the Whigs who did not think so especially one fellow name Abraham Lincoln, he doubts that polks actions -
Compromise of 1850
Slavery becomes outlawed in Washington D.C., California is admitted as a free state, and Utah and New Mexico will determine whether slavery is allowed through popular sovereignty. Also, the Fugitive Slave Law is passed. resulted in increased sectionalism -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The faced perspective by slave families and the evils of slavery and highly influenced the north's view on the Deep South and slavery. Resistance increased into slavery in the north -
Kansas Nebraska Act ( Popular Sovereignty )
The law attempted to let future states decide for themselves if they wanted to allow slavery or to be a free state. -
" Bleeding Kansas " ( Charles Sumner Attacked )
Violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in KansasTerritory where new proslavery and antislavery constitutions competed. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave and social activist who served several masters before suing for his freedom. His case made it to the Supreme Court prior to the American Civil War. -
Lower South Secedes
When each state ratified the Constitution and joined the Union it authorized the national government to act as its agent in the exercise of certain functions of sovereignty. -
The Election of 1860
Lincoln Won the election under an anti-slavery republican. Many Southern states decided to leave the United States. The Lincoln Douglas Debate had no commerce, over the public debates over Slavery enabling his nominee of the president because of his verbal success -
Attack on Fort. Sumter
Had the confederacy not attacked Fort Sumter there is a chance that the Confederate States would still exist today, although by now slavery would most likely have been abolished anyway in the south.
