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Road To War
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Wilmot Proviso
Introduced by congressmen David Wilmot to the House of Repersentatives on Aug, 8 1846, this bill would have made slavery illegal in the lands recived from Mexico after Mexican-American war -
The Compromise of 1850
Five bills that defused confrontation betwee free tates of the north and slave states of the south -
The Fugitive Law 1850
This act would require aw offical to arrest anyone suspected of being a slave, with as little as a sworn testimony for proof. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Anti slavery novel that helped to show the true face of slavery, depicting how destrutive it was to enslave another human being -
Kansas Nebraska Act 1854
This created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, which meant new land for settlers. However throught popular soverignty these settlers would be able to determine wether or not it would be a free state or a slave state -
Charles Sumners Beating - Preston Brooks
After Sumner gave a heated speech to the senate slandering slavery supporting southerns, representative Preston Brooks felt offened and confronting Sumner in his chambers beat him over the head with a gold tipped cane. -
Bleeding Kansas
Were violent confortations between anti savery supporters and pro slavery supporters that took place in Kansas territory -
Nativism and the know nothings
The Know-Nothing or American Party came to t American politics in the 1850s. The Know-Nothings, so-called because members responded "I know nothing" when asked about their party's positions, it actually emerged from secret societies opposed to immigrants coming to America. -
The New Republican Party Forms
After the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and his success in guiding the Union to victory and abolishing slavery, it became the domniate national party. The Republican Party was based on northern white Protestants, businessmen, professionals, factory workers, farmers, and African-Americans. It was pro-business, supporting banks, the gold standard, railroads, and tariffs to protect industrial workers and industry. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
The debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were held during the 1858 campaign for a US Senate seat from Illinois. The debates were held at 7 sites throughout Illinois, one in each of the 7 Congressional Districts -
Harpers Ferry Incident
Harpers Ferry Raid, assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal armoury located at Harpers Ferry, Va. (now in West Virginia). It was a main precipitating incident to the American Civil War. -
Lincoln Elected President
The central issue of the presidential election of 1860 was bound to be slavery. Battles over the spread of slavery to new territories and states had gripped the United States throughout the 1850s, and were especially intensified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. -
Southern Secession
The Confederate States of America consisted of the11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860-61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated in the spring of 1865. -
The Dred Scott Decision 1857
Dred Scott was a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully for his freedom in the famous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1856. His case was based on the fact that he & his wife Harriet were slaves, but had lived in states and territories where slavery was illegal, including Illinois and Wisconsin, which was then part of the Illinois Territory. The court ruled seven to two against Scott, finding that neither he, nor any person of African ancestry, could claim citizenship in the United S
