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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise didn't really raise the expansion of slavery because the idea of this compromise was to separate the free blacks in the north and the slaves in the south. -
Mexican War
yes it did affect slavery, the war raised the issue of how acquisition of such a large territory would affect the balance between slave and free states, and some did not want slavery o travel. -
Wilmot Proviso
wilmot proviso lowered slavery because his goal was to complexly eliminate slavery. he created a bill that says that slavery would be forbidden, but the bill never became law. -
California Gold Rush
the California made n impact on slavery what so ever. the California gold rush was when people from all over were trying to get rich quick by finding gold in rivers and in mines in California, very few actually succeeded. -
Fugitive Slave Law
the fugitive slave law made slavery worse. it forced northerner to aid slave catchers. Blacks were falsely identified as runaways, they were denied jury trials, and they were kidnaped from the north, and the person who kidnaped them claims that they are a runaway slave from the south, and the 'slave catcher' would receive pay for doing this. -
Compromise of 1850
the compromise of 1850 lowered slavery, because it made California a free state, and the rest of the land was divided into two territories that would decided on slavery using popular sovereignty. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published
when uncle toms cabin got published in 1852, this lowered the idea of expanding slavery because this book brought light on how truly awful slavery was, it talked about families being separated, slaves being abused, etc. the northerners viewed slavery as sin. -
Republican Party Forms
the republican party forms lowered tension on expanding slavery. republicans did not want slavery to expand west, neither did Lincoln, but the southerners saw Lincoln as the enemy because of this, and his name wasn't even put on the ballot, yet he still won because he won every state in the north and the west. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
the Kansas Nebraska act raised the tension of expanding slavery because it was mean to organize new northern states in the mid west for a northern railroad. the south was worried because this land was above the 36 30 line(where slavery was banned.) -
“Bleeding Kansas”
"Bleeding Kansas" raised the tension of expanding slavery. Kansas had a civil war between abolitionists and slave owners. popular sovereignty failed because people in Kansas could not agree over slavery. -
Charles Sumner caned in the Senate
Charles summer made a speech called "the crime against kanas", and in this speech he denounced slave states, making them sound evil and wrong, especially south Carolina. this lowered tension on expanding slavery. -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
The case of Dred Scott vs. Stanford, this raised the effect the tension on expanding slavery. This case went to the supreme court and they made a ruling about slavery in the west. the case was about a slave named Dred Scott, he was taken by his owner into a free territory and Scott sued and argued that this meant he was free now. he lost the case because he was viewed as property to the court. -
John Brown’s Raid at Harper’s Ferry
This raised tension on expanding slavery. John Brown and his fellow followers seized a federal arsenal at harpers ferry, VA. brown's intensions was to smuggle military weapons to the south and start a major slave rebellion. but brown was stopped, captured, and killed. -
Abraham Lincoln elected President
Abraham Lincoln being president raised the tension of slavery, because he did not want slavery to expand. southerners viewed him as the enemy, and northerners liked him because of his ideas. when he was elected president he won every state from the north and the west but lost the southerner states. his intentions in the beginning wasn't to end slavery, but to limit it from spreading it. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
battle of fort sumter wasn't really even about slavery. Lincoln wanted to resupply fort sumter but south Carolina claimed that the fort belonged to the confederacy, and when fort sumter refused to surrender, south Carolina bombed the fort. -
Southern states begin to secede
this event raised tension on expanding slavery. Since Lincoln was elected president the south feared that he would of stopped slavery for good. when Lincoln was elected presidency, 7 states from the lower south had seceded. the south formed their own union called the confederate states of America.
