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Missouri Compromise
-Kept balance between the slave and the free states
Some people wanted slavery to end so badly that even the lull that the Compromise made didn't satisfy them.
created a temporary stop to debate about slavery -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner was a popular religious leader among enslaved people. Turner brought up a group of slaves on a violent rebellion against slaveholders. Killing anyone in thier way.
This was a breif rampage but still had great effect on the Southerners and slaves. -
Wilmot Proviso 1846-1850
Banned any lands from slavery that might be aquainted with Mexico.
The south didn't agree, they believed that any antislavery policy would endanger slavery anywhere else. They wanted California and New Mexico to be open to slavery.
Senator John C. Calhoun came up with the proposal that neither Congress nor Territorial government could ban or regulate slavery. -
Wilmot Proviso Continued
This helped lead to the Civil War because of the different opinions between the North and South to where neither sides were satisfyed with a compromise or decision. -
Compromise of 1850
5 bills put together to become a compromise
They tried to limit slavery in new territories besides California.
Antislavery wanted slavery banned in Washinton DC whereas the Southerners wanted a strong law that made states return fugitive slaves.
If Califonria was entered as a free state then slaveholders would be outvoted-If this happened then the Southerners would seced from the Union. -
Compromise of 1850 continued
The effects of this may have helped lead to the Civil War because of how the South wasn't happy enough to where they were considering seceding from the Union.
If the government made a decison against slavery the South would revolt and if they made a decison for slavery the North would revolt. Even with compromises they eventually get mad -
Fugitive Slave Act
Required that citizens helped catch runaway slaves. Anyone who aided runaways would be thrown in jail.
This angered some people and made them form the Underground Railroad to help runaways get to saftey.
This network helped runaways get to a free state safley.
This could have helped lead to the Civil War by making the Southerners mad for helping their "property" runaway and making them lose workers -
Kansas Nebraska Act "Bleeding Kansas
Kansas and Nebraska were likley to become free states but the Southerners would have ojected.
Southerners didn't want Kansas and Nebraska to be free states because that would give free states more votes in the Senate.
The Missouri Compromise was abandoned and the settlers in each territory to vote whether there should be slavery or not. This was called popular sovereignty. -
Bleeding Kansas/ Kansas Nebraska Act continued
This could have helped lead to the Civil War by how the South didn't think they had enough votes for slavery so they charged into Kansas to make it a slave state and the North had the same idea which caused a competition and violence was inevitable. -
The Dred-Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave. His owner moved his household to Illinois, which was a free state then to the Wisconsin Territory where slavery is banned. Then they moved back to Missouri where his owner died.
Scott was sued for his freedom and sent to court.
His case reached Supreme Court and there he was concluded as an enslaved person.
This angered antislavery forces everywhere and considered the decison as a crime Which could have helped lead to the Civil War -
John Brown's raid on Harper Ferry
John Brown and his group of followers led an attack on Harper Ferry
John Brown had captured men and took over the federal armory and arsenal.
Brown wanted the local slaves to join in on the raid.
This helped lead to the Civil War by showing how many people didn't want slavery and boosting the confidence of antislavery people and slaves to revolt -
Lincoln's Election
Abraham Lincoln was nominated by the Republican Party. They wanted slavery to be left untouched from where it existed. Their main concern was that if they won there would be more slave revolts. The Democrats were divided and that gave Lincoln an obvious win. South Carolina voted to seced from the Union on December 20, 1860 -
Battle at Fort Sumter
Right after President Lincoln took office he received a message saying that a U.S fort was low on supplies. The President sent an unarmend expedition of supplies to Fort Sumter. He promised that they would not attack unless they themsleves were attcked.
Jefferson Davis took the opportunity to attack the Fort before they got their supplies.
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
