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3/5 compromise
settled the issue of represntion in congress. 3 out of 5 slaves were counted toward represention in congress. allows slaves to be concidered property -
Missouri Compromise
was a law or an agreement stating that missouri would be slave and maine would be free -
Compromise Of 1850
Five laws that were established to solve the issue of slavery. california requested permisstion to enter the union. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made any Federal marshal or other officers of the law responsible for arresting in runaway slaves. Those who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave liable to a fine of $1,000. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north -
Reaction to the Supreme Court Decision Dred Scott v. Sandford
The three hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty-five Slaveholders in the Republic, accomplished day before yesterday a great success -- as shallow men estimate success. They converted the Supreme Court of Law and Equity of the United States of America into a propagandist of human Slavery. -
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The critical issues dividing the nation, slavery versus free labor, popular sovereignty, and the legal and political status of black Americans -
Election of 1860
The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election. It was turmoil. Northern democrats felt that Stephen Douglas had the best chance to defeat the black republicans. -
Secession of Southern States
The Constitution of the United States, in its fourth Article, provides as follows: "No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due." -
Lincoln’s Inaugural Address
Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered.
