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Compromise of 1850
The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress. -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
A novel thats about anti-slavery. It was the best selling book in the country. Hammat Billings is the author of the book. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories. -
Brooks/Sumner Affair
Sumner himself regarded the speech as the "most thorough phillipic ever uttered in a legislative body. Across the board, he denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act and all who had sponsored it. -
Dred Scott Decision
His case was based on the fact that although he and his wife Harriet Scott were slaves. The United States Supreme Court decided 7–2 against Scott. -
Johns Brown Raid
After being defeated, John Brown asked Harriet Tubman to join his army but he was sick. He also asked Frderick Douglass to join him but Douglous believed that Browns plan would fail. -
Election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was a quadrennial election held on November 6, 1860. For the office of President of the United States and the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
Bleeding Kansas
It was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery. At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state.
