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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The compromise kept the union together, but it upset the North and the South.The compromise led to Northerners writing negative things about slavery, causing tension between the Norht annd the South. -
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Issues of Slavery
The events betwen these years explain the North and the South arguing over slavery and how they tried to resolve the issue. -
The Compromise of 1850
The compromiser made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. It also allowed the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide weather to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in D.C., and creaated a stronger fugitve slave law. The compromise led to Northerners attacking slave catchers. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The act created Kansas and Nebraska and abolsished the Missouri Compromise. The act abolished the compromise by allowing settlers to decide whether slavery would be allowed in Kansas and Nebraska. The act led to attacks between Northerners and Southerners, and an attack on Charles Sumner. -
The Dred Scott Decision
The Supreme Court had to decide if Dred Scott was a citizen who had the right to bring a case before a federal court. The court also had to decide if the time Scott spent is Wisconsin made him a free man. The Supreme Court decided that Scott was not a citizen and no African American could ever become one. -
The Election of 1860
The Republicans supported Abraham Lincon for president. Northern Democrats supported Stephen Douglas for president. Southern Democrats supported John C. Breckinridge. Lincol won, which made the South scared, leading to there seccesion from the Union and there attack on Fort Sumter. -
The attack on Fort Sumter
Confederates in Charleston, South Carolina fired at Fort Sumter for 33 hours. The people defending the fort finally surrenendered after the long attack. This attack angered Northereners and they no longer saw peace as an option to solve there disagreements. This attack was the last straw leading to the Civil War.
