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Missouri Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Furthermore, with the exception of Missouri, this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory Henry clay created this compromise. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War but it didn't pass. The conflict over the Wilmot proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C. was abolished. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published on March 20, 1852 -
Kansas Nebraska Act / Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas was a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. Pro-slavery and free state settlers went to Kansas to influence the vote but violence soon broke out. Abolitionist John Brown led anti-slavery fighters in Kansas before his raid on Harpers Ferry. -
Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott decision was the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, one of the most controversial events preceding the Civil War. In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in that case, which had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. Scott argued that time spent in a free state entitled him to emancipation. But they decided that no black, free or not, could claim their freedom. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Historians have traditionally regarded the series of seven debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign as among the most significant statements in American political history. The issues they discussed were not only of critical importance to the sectional conflict over slavery and states’ rights but also touched deeper questions that would continue to influence political discourse. -
John Brown’s Raid
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Lincoln’s Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge , Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas -
Southern Secession
The south seceded from the united states because Lincoln became president and wanted to get rid of slavery so eleven southern states left and became the the confederate states of america and soon after the rest of the southern states southern states followed in their footsteps.
