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Missouri Compromise
11 Slave States and 11 Free States
Missouri-Slave State
Maine-Free State
Concerns About Slavery in Territories
Calms Bitter over Slavery For Now -
Period: to
The 13 Events that Led to the Civil War
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Compromise of 1850
California added as a Free State
Stronger Fugitive Slave Law
Slave Trade but not Slavery Banned in Washington D.C.
Debated for 7 Months -
Fugitive Slave Act
Everyone had to Catch Runaways
Anyone that didn't help could be Fined or thrown in Jail
Underground Railroad
Northeners Resisted
Northern Juries Refused to Convict Violaters
Law Helped Northeners see the Evils of Slavery -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Showed Cruelness of Slavery
Impacted Northeners
300,000 Copies Sold
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Kansas/ Neraska Act
Stephen A. Douglas Wanted West Open for Settlement
Propsed organizing Territories into Kansas and Nebraska Conflict Erupted Over Slavery Again
Repeal Missouri Compromise
Let People Deciede About Slavery
Conflict Over Slavery again
Popular Soverignty -
Conflict in Kansas
1,000's of Border Ruffians Crossed from Missouri and other Surrounding States
Pro/Anti Slavery groups moved in
Violence Breaks Out
1,500 live in Kansas but 6,000 People voted
Senate backs Proslavery Forces
House backs Antislavery Forces
Reffered to as "Bleeding Kansas"
Proslavery Forces attack the City of Lawrence, antislavery Capital
Abolitonist John Brown retaliates and Attacks Proslavery men at Pottawatomie Creek, Killing Five Men -
Violence in Congress
Abolitionist Sen. Charles Sumner criticized Proslavery Senators, Including Sen. Andrew Butler, in a Speech called "Crimes Against Kansas"
Two Days Later Rep. Preston Brooks beat Sumner Senseless with a Cane
Injuries So Severe Sumner couldn't Return to Congress until 2 Years Later -
Dred Scot Case
Slave Temporarily Moved to Free State
Then his Owner Died
Claimed he Was Free since he was Temporarily in a Free State
Sued For Freedom
Sumpreme Court Ruled Against Him -
Lincoln/ Douglas Debates
7 Debates
Both Lawyers
Lincoln Loses but gains National Attention -
The South Secedes
Believes in States Rights
Formed Own Government
Believed it had the Right to Join and Secede from the Union -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln barely wins -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown, 16 Men, 2 of Brown's sons, and 5 African Americans
Targeted Arsenal and Armory
Robert E. Lee ended it
Tried to Arm Slaves
Hung to Death -
Firing on Fort Sumter
Jefferson Attacked Fortas Supplies Moved in
Fort helded for 33 Hours
4 Southern States Later Secede
Lincoln Calls for 75,000 Troops
The Civil War Begins
