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Missouri Compromise
Maine and Missouri were added into the Union and a free (Maine) and slave (Missouri) state, in order to balance the power of free and slave states in the Senate. Congress also made an imaginary line where above it slavery was banned and below it slavery was premitted at the lattitude of 36-30 -
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner leads a group of slaves to revolt against their owner, killing nearly 60 whites. Slaves were beginning to realize that their freedom was a constant debate. -
Congress's Gag Rule
The vote of Congress in 1836 to ignore all antislavery phamplets and petitions sent to them, so the fire against the abolishment of slavery would be distinguished. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was added to another bill about the Mexican American War and made it clear that territories that might be acquired from Mexico during the War would never permit slavery. The Wilmot Proviso was rejected by the Senate. -
California's Application for Statehood
California applied for statehood as a free state, ould would unbalance the balance of the slave and free states. -
The Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay had come up with a solution to the unbalanced state power, the Compromise of 1850, which would admit California into the Union as a free state, and allow the Utah and New Mexico territories to allow whether or not to allow slavery. The compromise was accepted in Septemeber 1850 and was a solution to the problem of California's admission disrupting the balance of power ofthe free and slave states. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Publication
The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was published in 1852 and sparked a powerful wave of emotion both in the North and the South. The novel painted a picture of the hardships and suffering that slaves endured. -
Ostend Manifesto & Kansas Nebraska Act
The Ostend Manifesto was an idea of the effort to buy Cuba from Spain sent to President Franklin Pierce, which the Northeners saw as America wanting to add another slave state to the Union, which infuriated Northerners.The Kansas Nebraska Act was a bill passed in 1854 that proposed leaving the permission of slavery up to the settlers of the Kansas and Nebraska territories. -
Attack on Lawrence & Pottawatomie
The passing of the Kansas- Nebraska act led to many anti and pro slavery groups to populate Kansas to support the abolishment of or support slavery. On May 21, 1856, proslavery inhabitants invaded rthe city of Lawrence, Kansas and burnt down and stole from properties. A group of eight antislavery men went into the town of Pottawatomie, Kansas not even two days later and killed five proslavery men. -
The Dred Scott Csse.
A slave named Dred Scott had traveled to the free state of Wisconsin with his master, making him believe he was a free man. He took the matter to the Supreme Court in 1857, who said that he couldn't sue in a court due to the fact that he was not a citizen, and blacks could never become one, and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because it was the same as takin property away from slaveholders. -
Birth of Republican Party
The Repulican party was formed off of the mutual beliefs that slavery wasn't moral and should be abolished. Republicans also voted of Lincoln to run for Senate the same year, against Stephen Douglas, who was proslavery. -
John Brown's Raid
In the midst of all this debate, abolitionist John Brown decided in 1859 to seize the Federal Arsenal and arm a group of slaves in order to carry out a rebellion that would end slavery. When he carried out his plan, all of his men were either captures or killed, and Brown was sentenced to death. The rebellion frightened Southerners with the fact that slaves COULD rebel, and if they did it would be the masters that suffered. -
The South Secedes
By 1860 Lincoln was running President, which gave a sense of forboding to the South. The South seceded the Union in the same year with the realization that the South had no major impact on the course of slavery. -
CIVIL WAR BEGINS!
The South replaced the American Flag with the white surrender flag, sparking the start of the Civil War. The North reacts wildly to the news.
