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Missouri Comprimise
The Missouri Comprimise did not have a sertain date but took place in 1820. The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 with tensions between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
Fugative Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. Enacted by Congress in 1793, the first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight.It Caused tensions between the South and North becacause it wasnt fair for the north becuase south was comeing in and taking slaves and inecient people -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. It caused tensions betweent the North and South becuase, they did not support the same perspective. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. The act was designed by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. Witch the south Invaided terotories to North is what cause tensions. -
"Bleeding Kansas"
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. Proslavery and free-state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision. Violence soon erupted as both factions fought for control. Abolitionist John Brown led anti-slavery fighters in Kansas before his famed raid on Harpers Ferry. -
Republican Party being formed.
This caused lots of tensions because the main opposition was to spread slavery to the west. The issue they had once again witch was brought the the Nebraska kansas act of 1854. Witch Quickly "Raised a Storm". -
The Dredd Scott Decison
The Dredd ScottD, Court held that African Americans, whether slave or free,could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court,and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.Dred Scott, an African American slave who had been taken by his owners to free states and territories. the Court denied Scott's request. For only the second time the fedral court was unconstitutinal. -
Raiding of Harpers Ferry
It was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accompanied by 20 men in his party, was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee. But some said it was not smart for brown to do that becuae now there was tension between them more and more. -
Licolns Election
The tensions of Lincolns election were the view points on what lincoln thought. The South did not agree with what lincolns veiw points that was on slavery. Lincoln didnt want to stop it immediatly but he did not want it to spread. He said it would be a small steps to get slavery away. The south did not agree witch caused tensions between the north and south. -
The Secession Of South Carolina
South Carolina was a site of major political and military importance for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. The white population of the state strongly supported the institution of slavery long before the war. Political leaders such as Preston Brooks had inflamed regional passions, and for years before the eventual start of the Civil War in 1861 voices cried for secession. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first Southern state to declace its seccion and form a Confedarcy
