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The Missouri Compromise
An agreement by Henry Clay to keep the number of slaves and free states equal. -
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Slavery Divides the Nation
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Free-Soil Party
It was a fast growing political party that was anti-slavery and tried to keep slavery out of the western territories. -
Compromise of 1850
An agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe written to show the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issuse of slavery. -
Fromation of Republican Party
Political party started to keep slavery from going west. -
Bleeding Kansas
It was a series violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery men and pro-slavery men in Kansas that marked the begining of the fighting in the Civil War. -
Dred-Scott Case
Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom and lost; brough into question the federal power over slavery in the territories. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown led 18 other men into Harper's Ferry, in hopes to establish a major slave rebellion in the south. And to build up his army he would recruit slaves along way. This incouraged other people form north and south to join protests and help the cause to end slavery. -
Election of 1860
Abraham was elected president and the Southern states left the union because he was a Republican. Soon after the Civil War was started.