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Missouri Compromise
People became concered about the growth of slavery as the country started to expand westward. The North and the South wanted different things concerning slavery. Henry Clay, the great compromiser, can in to settle this problem. He said that Maine will come in as a free state and Arkansas is open to slavery. The Missouri Compromise line was formed at 36,30 and every state north of that line was free and every state south will come in as a slave state. -
The Nullification Crisis
Southern states like South Carolina felt that tarrifs were unfair and only supported the North. Vice President John C. Calhoun said that any stae could nullify any federal law they think is unconstitutional. When the federal government argued that South Carolina had no right to reject the law South Carolina threatend to secede. Henry Clay's compromise was to lower the tarrif. -
Fugitive Slave Act Of 1850
This act permitted people to capture African-Americans who escaped the South and came to the North. It also convinced many abolitionists that magor measures had to take place to end slavery. The laws increased the tension and set the stage for John Brown's raid and the Civil War. -
Compromise Of 1850
Congress had many debates as to what new territories that were addmitted would become a slave state or free state, after the Mexican war. Henry Clay came up with two compromises between the North and the South. 1) California would become a free state and slave trade in Washington D.C is abolished. 2) Congree won't pass laws banning slavery from territories won from Mexico. -
Bleeding Kansas
Before Kansas entered the Union there's going to be an election of an official state legislature. 5000 people from Missouri came and voted for proslavery illegally in Kansas. Kansas won the proslavery legislature. Anti-slavery opponents started their own government. Anti-slavery government was attacted by proslavery forces. Extreme abolitionist John Brown murdered several of his proslavery neighbors. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dread scott was a slave in the Union who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom in the Dred Scott vs. Standford case. -
Attack On Harpers Ferry
John Brown wanted to inspire slaves to fight for their freedom. His plan was to capture the weapons at the army base in Harpers Ferry, Virginia to arm slaves. Brown and his men were captured and ten were killed. Abolitionists saluted John Brown as he was put to his death. The issue of slavery had raised tentions in America to the breaking point. -
The Election Of 1860
Abraham Lincoln wins the election even though he said that he would do nothing to abolish slavery in the South. Southern people don't trust him. Southern states started to secede from the union not long after Lincoln is elected.
