slavery time line

By Devin wilson

  • missori compromise

    Missouri is granted as a slave state

  • free soil party

    a short lived political party in the U.S.that opposed the expansion of slavery

  • compromise of 1850

    California is admitted as a free state and utah and new mexico territories are created from it.

  • uncle toms cabin

    an anti slavery novel written in 1852 that suposidly helped lay the ground work for the civil war.

  • kansas-nebraska act

    A bill issued in 1854 to allow settlers to decide if settlers wanted to allow slavery.

  • bleeding kansas

    the violent period of time when kansas was first settling.

  • The Dred scott case

    a case about a slave who was living in a free state/territory and was completly denied his freedom.