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Missouri compromise
With the north West Ordinance territories would wait til they had 60,000 people to become a state. Once Missouri Passed the population limit they wanted to be admitted as a slave state. This created tension and Henry Clay made a compromise which would also admit Maine as a free state which would balance the number of slave and free states. Then for the future he added the 36 30' line which stated that any new state below the line would be a slave state and above be free. This would soon fail. -
the Nullification crisis
once tariff laws came in 1828 and 1832 states in the south - like South Carolina - did not like the tariff and thought it was unfair because it raised the prices of goods they needed to work with, but the North loved tariffs because their goods were being bought and they were getting money. South C. got so mad that they made an argument saying that and law made by the federal government could be nullified by any state, so S.C threatened to ceded because of this Henry Clay lowered the tariff. -
Compromise of 1850, January 29th
After the Mexican American War Congress had to make a decision of what type of states California and New Mexico would be. Henry Clay came to save the day and came up with another compromise. California would come in as a free state and slave trade would be illegal in Washington D.C. and Congress would not pass any laws pertaining to the abolition of slavery from the rest of the land won from Mexico. -
Fugitive Slave Act, September 18th 1850
In September of 1850 the F.S.A was passed. This law said that any African American with out their papers saying they were free they would be captured and sent to the south. Many abolitionists opposed this act because anyone who knew of an escaped slave must tell an authority immediately. The act rose tension between the North and the South and encouraged people like John Brown to take serious measures to end slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
After it was announced that Kansas would become a state and it was up to the people to decide whether it would be pro or anti slavery. Around 5000 people outside of Kansas rushed to get their vote in and they were voting illegally. Once everyone has voted it was declared that Kansas would indeed be against slavery. then the anti slavery government was attacked by pro slavery forces. To avenge the government crazy abolitionists like John Brown killed several pro slavery neighbors. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave that stated he was free after being in Illinois and Wisconsin, he tried to sue his owner with this argument but the court declared...1) Scott was not free based on his residence in the North 2) African Americans were not considered citizens in the Constitution drafted in 1787 3) DRED SCOTT WAS PROPERTY OF HIS OWNER AND COULD NOT BE TAKEN FROM A PERSON WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW -
Attack on Harper's Ferry
John Brown was a man who believed he was chosen from God to abolish slavery. He wanted to inspire slaves to fight back at their owners and get their freedom. John made a plan to capture all the weapons in the Harper's ferry, Virginia base and give those weapons to the slaves, but none of them followed. john Brown fought with his five sons and other men willing to risk their lives for the cause. ten men died during John Brown's brigade, he and his men were captured and he was sentenced to death. -
The Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln won because unlike the others he did not mention that he would abolish or keep slavery so we won the North almost completely but the South still did not trust him.
