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Missouri compromise 1820
In an effect to preserve the balance of power in congress between slave and freestates, passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and main as a free state -
Abolitionist Movement
The abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. Advocating for immediate emancipation distinguished abolitionists from more moderate anti-slavery advocates who argued for gradual emancipation, and from free-soil activists who sought to restrict slavery to existing areas and prevent its spread further west. William Lloyd started an abolitionist paper, The Liberator. -
The Pro-Slavery Argument
Slavery was the foundation of the antebellum South. More than any other characteristic, it defined Southern social, political, and cultural life. It also unified the South as a section distinct from the rest of the nation. John C. Calhoun, the South’s recognized intellectual and political leader from the 1820's until his death in 1850, devoted much of his remarkable intellectual energy to defending slavery. He developed a two-point defense. -
Compromise of 1850
Henry clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between the north and the south. As part of the compromise the fugitive slave act was amended and the sleeve trade in Washington was abolished -
The fugitive slave act
part of the compromise between southern slave holding interests and northern free soilers this new law forcibly compelled atizens to assist in the capture of run away slaves -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Allowed Citizens in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide locally wether to allow slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas 1854
A series of violent political confrontations in the united states involving anti-slavery and pro-slave states -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates (also known as The Great Debates of 1858) were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. The Lincoln Douglas Debates of 1858 were the first debates between US senate candidates in American history. Nothing like them had ever quite happened before since state legislatures, not voters, still selected US senators. -
John brown's raid and nat turner
john brown was a man that was against slavery so he gathered a group of slaves to be apart of his raid that would attack to send a message about slavery and Nathaniel turners attack on virginia slavery -
Election of Abraham
The United States Presidential Election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, and won by the Republican Party, with President Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Hannibal Hamlin.
