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Missouri Compromise
A compromise about new states to the union: North of the line of latitude at 36 degrees, there would be no new slave states entering the union and below the line there could be new slave states. It meant to make it equal between North and South, but it didn’t work. It led to Civil War because people kept arguing about slave states. -
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Steps to War
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Compromise of 1850
Passed in 1850, the Compromise abolished the slave-trade in Washington D.C. The northerners liked it because it stopped slavery in the capital. The southerners dislike it because it stopped slavery in the capital. -
Fugitive Slave Law
This law was passed in 1850 when California became a free state. The law is that if you have a slave in your home you must give him to the owner of that slave. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Passed in 1854 the initial purpose of the act was to open up thousands of new farms. People decided through popular sovereignty if the area would be slave or free which lead into debates that caused Bleeding Kansas. -
Bleeding Kansas
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions were fighting and arguing about slavery in the area. -
Dred Scot decision
After a slave lived in the Wisconsin territory for four years, he sued his master for not letting him have freedom, this case lead into supreme court where they ruled that Dred Scott was not a citizen of the US. Southerners agreed with the decision but northerners dislike it because they thought it was inhumane to treat someone like property. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates begin
The series of seven debates on the 1858 Illinois state election campaign on the issues of slavery. -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown attacked a weapons arsenal in the south near Harpers Ferry in 1859, he and a small group of people raided the arsenal with plans for a slave revolt but Robert E. Lee came with a detachment of US Marines to stop the attack. -
American Civil War Begins
