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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
It was a law passed in 1787 to regulate the settlement of Northeast territory which was divided. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the most important of the three acts, laid the basis for the government of the Northwest Territory and for the admission of its constituent parts as states into the union. I think it impacted the tension between the north and south because of the territorial expansion and the slavery became intertwined. -
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was the term used to describe a network of meeting places, secret routes, passageways and safe houses used by slaves in the U.S. to escape slave holding states to northern states and Canada. The Underground Railroad helped thousands of slaves escape.100,000 slaves escaped from bondage in the South between 1810 and 1850. -
Missouri Compromise
It was an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slaves and free states. This could cause tension between the north and south because much more states were becoming slave states even though they knew they slavery was morally wrong. Slavery was banned in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase except for Missouri. the north was much more involved in this then the south. -
Annexation Of Texas
The Incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state in1845. The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico. Most Southern states took part in slavery than the Northern did. Mexico didn't accept Texas as it’s own country. It was stated that annexation was necessary for preservation of slavery in America. There were pro-slavery Southerners & Northerners who objected to the spread of slavery. -
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Mexican American War
It was war between Mexico and America stemming from the Annexation of Texas in 1854 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River or the Rio Grande. the Mexican government and the United States negotiated for peace in 1848, resulting in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. -
Treaty of Guadulupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was when Mexican government & the USA negotiated for peace in 1848. It was a triumph for American expansionism under which Mexico ceded nearly half its land to the United States. It included current states like California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, a portions of Wyoming and Colorado. This could cause tension between the north & south because many southerners opposed to the idea because they didn't want Mexico’s large mestizo population apart of the U.S -
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was when thousands of California residents had gone north to the gold fields, they all visioned lots of money and plenty of wealth and because of that thousands of people from around the world followed them and The Gold Rush had began. Millions of dollars were made and barely any of it went to individuals. This could cause tension between the south and north because plenty of people are taking both routes decreasing the population just to barely receive any money. -
Compromise of 1850
It was passed by U.S. Congress and It was a Fugitive Slave Act and the purpose was to satisfy both proslavery and antislavery forces maintain a balance free and slave states. The south gained by the strengthening of the fugitive slave law, the north gained a new free state, California. Texas lost territory but was compensated with 10 million dollars to pay for its debt. Slave trade was prohibited in Washington DC, but slavery was not. -
Fugitive Slave Act
It was passed by Congress as a new and stronger Fugitive Slave Act, taking the matter of returning runaway slaves out of the control of states and making it a federal responsibility. It triggered such a strong reaction throughout the north. They became determined opponents of any further extension slavery into the territories. It succeeded as a temporary expedient. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel written by a woman, named Harriet Beecher Stowe, from the North. This made the South extremely made because the woman never even experience the life of a person from the South. To sum things up, The Uncle Tom's Cabin was a tremendous influence England people on the American Slave deep in south. -
Bleeding Kansas/ Kansas Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas was a small civil war in the U.S. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported. -
Caning of Sumner
Sumner campaigned against what he saw southern aggression on the slavery issue. In 1855 he endorsed the Republican party, which had been organized primarily to oppose slavery interests. This could caused high tension between the north and south.May 1856, he lambasted southern efforts to extend slavery into Kansas and attacked his colleague, Andrew P. Butler of South Carolina. Shortly, his cousin has beaten him badly and he spent 3 years and a half recovering from it. -
Lecompton Constitution
It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War. This constitution was rejected multiple times by Kansas. This could cause tension between the north and south because it was by Southern pro slavery advocates of Kansas. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
In the 1850s, Brown traveled to Kansas with five of his sons to fight against the proslavery forces in the contest over that territory. On May 21st pro slavery men raided the abolitionist town of Lawrence. May 25th is when Brown and his sons retaliated. Word of the raid got out and 10 of Brown’s men were killed including 2 of sons and he was sentenced to jail.
