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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. This increased tension between sectionalism because southerners criticized that congress could make laws regarding slavery, and the northerners criticized that it expanded slavery. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, led by Nat Turner. This increased tension because it inspired more anti-slavery rhetoric and abolitionist. -
Compromise of 1850
the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.The Compromise of 1850 overturned the Missouri Compromise and left the overall issue of slavery unsettled. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law was passed, requiring northerners to return runaway slaves to their owners under penalty of law. This created more tension because the north didn't want to help because they were against slavery. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Rising anger over slavery increased tensions between the North and the South and led to violence. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The people who wanted slavery and the people who were against it contested against each other which eventually broke out in to Civil war. -
“Bleeding Kansas”
Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. This created tension because people from the south and people from the north came to Kansas, their ideals conflicted with eachother. -
Brooks Attacks Sumner
In the United States Senate when Representative Preston Brooks used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist. This created more tension because this enraged abolitionist. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
In Dred Scott v. Sandford , the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. This created tension because it enraged abolitionists. -
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. -
Raid on Harpers 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. This created tension because it enraged southerners. -
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. This created tension because they fought for each state being entered into the union to allow slavery in the territory. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter
Confederate warships turned back the supply convoy to Fort Sumter and opened a 34-hour bombardment on the stronghold. The garrison surrendered. This created tension because this event was what sparked the Civil war.
