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3/5 Compromise
Settle the issue over representation of Congress 3 out of 5 slaves were counted twoards representation in Congress. Allows slaves to be considered property -
Missouri Compromise
The MIssouri compromise was set to balance power of slave and free states. It entered ss a slave state and tensions over slavery increased A compromise was reached that Missouri wound enter as a slave states and no slave state could be made in the future in the Remianing Louisianna Territory above the 36 30 line. Maine would enter as a free state. -
Fredrick Douglas
A former slave and eminent human rights leader in the abolition movement, was the first black citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank. Started to write and give speechs of Anti-Slavery. He made many accomplishments like The Personal Liberty Act is were states officials can not take part in the recapture of a fugitive state. -
Compromise of 1850
Their was a dispute over land. California was the new territory that the U.S. introduce. There was a debate either it was going to be a free state or a slave state.It threatened the balance of free and slave states. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The law was responsible for arresting runaway slaves.The North warned slaves to keep watch out for kidnappers and slave catchers. In the South slave owners were coming to free states to take back their slaves. -
Harriet Tubman
Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad. She assisted the Union on how to defeat the South during battles. Even an outspoken supported suffrage movment. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebracka to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their territories. There was no republican party made yet. There was increased regional tension. The North feared that it was to support more slavery. The South tried to frame the bill as protecting the political rights of settlers -
Lincoln v. Douglas
The critical issues dividing the nation--slavery versus free labor, popular sovereignty, and the legal and political status of black Americans --were brought into sharp focus in a series of dramatic debates during the 1858 election campaign for U.S. senator from Illinois. Douglas decided wanted it this because It can effectively limit slavery because local police regulations can make you have slaves in that territory.Lincoln said opposed because territorial residents can ban after Dred Scott. -
Supreme Court: Dred Scott v. Sandford
The U.S. Supreme Court stated that slaves were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the Federal Government or the courts.On its way to the Supreme Court, the Dred Scott case grew in scope and significance as slavery became the single most explosive issue in American politics. After the decision it was said that all persons born in the United States are citizens. -
Election of 1860
Divided by four political parties parties Republican, Northern Democratic, Southern Democratic, and Constitutional Union. Whoever won made he tome o whether the United States was going to be an all free or slave country. Abraham Lincoln was elected the 19th president of the United States of America.
