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Road to the Civil War
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Missouri Compromise
The compromise that allowed Missouri into a slave state to keep the balance of one free state and slave sate, additionally Missouri would become a free state over the states. -
Tariff of 1828
This was a tariff implemented to protect Northern industries, but in now way benefited the South. -
Net Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner and his supporters of slaves made a rebellion in which they killed their slave owners. This was bloody revolt in which many white people died. -
Tariff of 1832
This tariff was implemented to lower the effects of the Tariff of 1828, served as a way to please the South. -
Nullification Crisis
This was a crisis in which South Carolina threatened to secede because the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 have not helped the South all that much. Adding to it Jackson even ordered troops to forcefully collect taxes for South Carolina which even increased tension. -
Texas Annexation
Thus was a debate because Northerners feared that the South would want to expand slavery further West -
Wilmot Proviso
This was a proposition from David Wilmot which would band slavery in any land acquired from Mexico. -
The Compromise of 1850
It allows for the South to have slaves in Texas, New Mexico, and Utah, additionally it enforced a stronger fugitive slave act, but the North was able to keep California. This cool down tensions but would end up being useless as the fugitive slave act wasn't enforced as much. -
Fugitive slave act of 1850
A stronger version of the previous fugitive slave act which was to return any runaway slaves in the North back to the South, thou like the last act it wasn't enforced as much. -
Uncle Tom's cabin
This was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe showing the horrors of slavery. This was another book meant to oppose slavery. -
The Kansas-Nebraska act
This was a debate because both states were above the parallel line which would upset the balance of a slave state and free state. Kansas was allowed as a slave state which enraged the North because it violated the Missouri Compromise -
Bleeding Kansas
This was event in which slave supporters and anti-salve supporters fought for the decision of Kansas being a free or slave state. This politics soon turned into a bloody guerrilla war -
Sumner-Brooks affair
This was after Senator Charles Sumner gave a speech called the "The Crime against Kansas" in which he also attacked senator Andrew P. Butler of South Carolina -
Presidential election of 1856
This was the presidential election between Democrat James Buchanan, Millard Fillmore ,and Republican John C. Freemont. Democrat James Buchanan won the election -
Presidential election of 1860
This was the presidential election between Republican Abraham Lincoln, Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglass, and John Bell. Lincoln won the presidential election, thou this presidential election showed even further the split of the North and South.