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Importation of Slaves End
This was the huge moment that ended the slave trade. It was considered economically changing because it completely changed the amount of labor. It was also politically changing because it created many different opinions on the topic. Lastly it was also socially changing because it affected many peoples day to day lives especially on farms. -
Missouri Comprimise
The Missouri compromise declared Missouri as slave state and Maine as a slave-free state. This is politically changing because it was the legislative branch of Missouri that made the decision of being a slave state. -
The Wilmot Proviso
An attempt by Congress to ban slavery in the Mexico territory that was won in the Mexican- American war. This could be considered socially changing since Congress was in charge of this decision. -
The Compromise of 1850
This was bills and treaties passed by the United States that was an attempt at creating peace between the states that were pro slave and slave free. This could be considered politically changing because it was an attempt by the government to calm things down. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
An event in which all slaves, including the ones that had been previously freed, were to return back too their owners. This was economically changing because while labor did go back up this was a huge disappointment because socially people had been fighting for this and this was a huge step back from what they had been fighting for. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book written about slavery by the author Harriet Beecher. This was socially changing because it brought to a light another side to what many people were going through and showed the people a lot of the struggles that slaves were facing behind the scenes which changed a lot of people's mind's. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
Getting rid of the Missouri Compromise, this act also made up the land that is now Kansas and Nebraska. This was considered economically changing because this later developed two important state. -
Bleeding Kansas
The small war between anti slavery and pro slavery states that took place within the new Kansas territory. This could be considered economic because it later established Kansas as a state. This could also be social because it was a huge disagreement over the topic of slavery that led to this war. -
The Caning Of Charles Sumner
When a pro slavery democrat named Preston Brooke attacked anti-slavery republican Charles Sumner with a walking cane. This was politically changing because it created a stir between the two political parties. -
The Dred Scott Decision
A decisions made by the United States to keep slavery and deny colored people citizenship. This was economically changing because it had kept the economy still underpaid and unfair. This was also social because it had once again disobeyed the people of color their basic human rights and they went right back to where they started even though they had fought so hard. This was also political because it drove a bigger wedge between the government parties as well as states with their opinions on it.