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Missouri Compromise
- Henry Clay, a great compromiser debated that Main would be admitted as a free state and Arkansas as a slave state. -helped preserve the balance between slave and free states in the sentate -It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north -Stopped the slavery debate for a while
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The Nullification Crisis of 1832
-Southern states did not like the idea of tariffs. The Southern states thought it was unfair and it only supported the north.
-John C. Calhoun said any state could counter argue a federal law if it was unconstitutional.
- South Carolina wanted to nullify tariffs but the federal denied.
- he south threatened to secede.
-Henry Clay came up with a compromise that can make both north and south agree. Henry Clay also helped lower the tariffs. -
The Election of 1860
-Abraham Lincoln wins the election
-Lincoln does not say anything about abolishing slavery, but the southerners do not believe him.
- The southerners start slowly seceding the Union after Abraham Lincoln wins the election -
Compromise of 1850
-After the war of Mexico, the territories that have been taken from Mexico will either have to be free states or slave states.
-Henry Clay came up with the plan to solve issue dividng congress.
-California would be admitted as a free state.
-The Congress did not pass laws banning slavery from the new territories
-Had a stronger fugitive law -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
-Permitted to capture slaves who escaped from the south going to the north.
-Heightened tension and sparked John Brown's Raid and the American Civil War
-Convinced more people of the evils of slavery
-Led many northerners to support the Underground Railroad
-Led runaway slaves to go to Canada instead. -
Bleeding Kansas 1855
-About 5000 people from Missouri voted for proslavery representatives in Kansas illegally.
-People who were against slavery started their own government.
-The anti-slavery goverment was attacked by the proslavery group.
-John Brown an abolitionist got back to the proslavery by murdering several of his proslavery neighbors. -
Dred Scott Decision
-A landmark decision by the U.S supreme Court
-African Americans (slave or free) could not be American citiziens.
-Dred Scott an African slave sued for his freedom
-The Chief Justice denied his request -
Attack on Harpers Ferry 1859
-John Brown wanted the slaves to act and fight for their freedom. --John prepared the slaves by secretly delivering them some weapons to capture the arsenal.
-John Brown and the slaves got captured
-Many saluted John Brown
-The issue of slavery had more tensions causing a breaking point
