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North West Ordinance
The North West Ordinance created a government for the Northwest Territory, listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory, and provided a method for admitting new states to the Union. Slavery was forever outlawed in the territory and provided freedom of religion and other civil liberties. (RED) (POLITICAL) -
Missouri Compromise
Legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state in order to not upset tension between slave and free states in the nation. It also outlawed slavery about a set latitude line in the rest of the Louisiana Territory. (GREEN) (POLITICAL) -
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Nat Turner Rebellion
A rebellion of enslaved Virginians led by Nat Turner in Southhampton Country. The rebels killed about 65 white men, women, and children as they tried to kill as many whites involved in slavery as possible. (RED) (SOCIAL) -
Gag Rule
A series of rules that forbade discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives. (RED) (POLITICAL) -
Amistad Case
A U.S. Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of Africans on La Amistad (the Spanish Schooner). (RED) (SOCIAL) -
Annextion of Texas
When Texas was annexed by the U.S. and became the 28th state. (RED) (POLITICAL) -
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Dread Scott
A black slave who unsuccessfully sued for freedom. Under Louisiana law, he could not be a citizen because he was black which lead him back into slavery. (RED) (SOCIAL) -
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Mexican war
A conflict between the U.S. and Mexico that followed the annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered it's territory. (RED) (POLITICAL) -
Wilmore Proviso
An unsuccessful proposal to ban slavery in territory acquired from mexico in the Mexican-American war. (RED) (SOCIAL) -
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Gold Rush
Gold was found by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill in California. The news spread and brought 300,000+ people to California from the rest of the U.S. and abroad. (RED) (ECONOMIC) -
Compromise of 1850
Called for the admission of California as a free state and provided a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico. Also established a boundry between Texas and the U.S., called for the slave trade in Washington D.C. to end, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act. (GREEN) (POLITICAL) -
Fugitive Slave Act
Required that slaves be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state. It made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves. (RED) (SOCIAL) -
Publication of Uncle Toms Cabin
Stowe shared ideas about the injustices of slavery, and shared light about and pushed back against cultural beliefs about the physical and emotional capacities of black people. (RED) (SOCIAL) -
Onstend Manifesto
A document advocating U.S. seizure of Cuba from Spain. (RED) (POLITICAL) -
Kansas Nebraska Act
An act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska in the land of the Louisiana Purchase. It ended up giving to many states to the nrother and weakened Kansas. (RED) (POLITICAL) -
John Brown and Harpers Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown seized the largest federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and forced people to reconsider the immorality of slavery. (RED) (SOCIAL) -
Crittenden Compromise
An unsuccessful proposal to permanently preserve slavery in the U.S. Constitution, making it unconstitutional an end to slavery in the furture. (RED) (POLITICAL)