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Missouri Compromise
- The North and South argue about the growth of slavery
- Henry Clay settles the debates
- Was a series of laws that helped maintain the balance between slave and free states
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The Nullification Crisis
- Southern states opposed the tarrifs passed and felt they only supported the North
- Vice President John C. Calhoun said that any state could void a federal law if it was unconstitutional
- The government denied Ssouth Carolin's claim and South Carolina threatened to secede
- Henry Clay made a compromise lowering the tarrif
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Compromise of 1850
- Congress was deciding if the territory recieved from Mexico would entered as slave or free states
- Henry Clay made a compromise again
- California would be free state
- Congress would not pass laws banning slavery in the territories
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Fugitive Slave Act
- Passed by Congress. Allowed the capture of African Americans that ran away to the North
- Heightened the Tension
- Set stage for John Brown's Raid and the Civil War
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Bleeding Kansas
- 500 people who were pro slavery came and voted for proslavery representatives in Kansas illegally
- Anti-slavery people started their own government
- The anti-slavery government was attacked by proslavery forces
- To avenge them john Brown murdered several proslavey neighbors
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Dredd Scott Decision
- Slave that had lived in a frees state before moving back to the slave state Missouri
- all blacks including slaves couldn't become citizens of the united States
- Court declared the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
- Slavery was allowed in all of the territories in the united States
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Attack on Harpers Ferry
- John Brown wanted to inspire slaves to fight for freedom. He was going to capture the arsenal in Virginia to arm slaves
- Brown was captured along with his men
- Brown was saluted by abolitionists when he was put to death.
- Slavery had raised tensions to the breaking point
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The Election of 1860
- Abraham Licoln wins
- Southern states start to secede from the union after he was elected
