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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
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Formation of the Free-Soil Party
The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections. -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay wanted to avert crisis between the North and South. Also the Fugitive Slave act was amended and slave trade was abolished. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
An anit-slavery novel published in 1852. Also the best selling book in the 19 century. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Dred Scott's Case
An 1857 Surpreme Court case in whick a slave, Dred Scott, sued fofr his freedom and lost; case brought into question the federal power over slavery in the terrioties -
John Brown's Case
On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of HARPER'S FERRY, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves in the area and move south along the Appalachian Mountains, attracting slaves to his cause. He had no rations. He had no escape route. His plan was doomed from the very beginning. But it did succeed to deepen the divide between the North and South. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincon wanted to free slavery in the West. -
Bleeding Kansas
Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861.
