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Missouri Compromise
The main issue was whether new states would be admitted as free or slave states. The North and South were impacted differently because it affected the balance of power in Congress. It increased tensions by making slavery a national political issue. -
Nullification Crisis
The Southern States resisted imposed and protected Tariffs to guard emerging industries. This impacted the North because they needed these goods to grow their industries.This increased tensions by angering the North's industries because the South was blocking them from increasing their wealth and running their factories and businesses. -
The Compromise of 1850
The nation needed to keep the balance of Free and Slave states. The balance of Free and Slave states stayed equal and the idea of popular sovereignty impacted some Western states. There was a lot of tension between the states and maintaining the balance of Free and Slave states. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The main issue of the Fugitive Slave Act is that it allowed any Southerners to chase escaped slaves into the North and this frustrated the North. The people who were affected were the African Americans who were running from slavery and now had to get all the way to Canada. It also affected the states frustrating the North who felt invaded and they did not like how the South could just walk into their backyard and chase slaves. This created a tension between Northerners and Southerners. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
The book showed the horrors of Slavery and made the hate for slavery skyrocket. Many Southern states banned the book. Many people were impacted including moved Europeans, many Northerners, immigrants, the government and politics, and even some Southerners. The book created a large tension and divide between the South and everyone else with the South being large on Slavery whilst most others leaned towards anti-slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska which were open to popular sovereignty which was upsetting to the North because these territories were above the Missouri compromise line so they were supposed to be free states. The people impacted were the Free states and the people in and around the Kansas and Nebraska territories. There was a lot of tension between Free and Slave states and this increased it with the attempted flipping of Free states. -
Bleeding Kansas and the Pottawatomie Massacre
The main issue was that with popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, many pro and anti slavery settlers rushed to Kansas and Nebraska to try and make them Free or Slave. Whilst there they started to beat the crap out of each other because they didn't like each other's views. The people impacted were the original settlers, native people, the settlers, and the territories/states themselves. There was a lot of tension between a packed group of opposing people fueled by violence -
Dred Scott Decision
The main issue of the Dred Scott decision was that it told African Americans that they don't have the rights of a white man and that they can't vouch for their freedom. The African Americans especially slaves were impacted negatively by this decision because they were called property by the U.S. government. The tension that was created was between Southern planters and black iduviduals about slavery and iduviduals rights. -
John Brown's Raid and Trail
The main issue of John Browns raid and Trial is the terror that he caused and the symbol he became. He impacted the whole U.S. with his tactics and he even impacted the divide between pro and anti slavery parties. There was a lot of tension created because of John Browns raid in trial with the North loving him and backing him whereas the South loathed him and what he stood for as well as what he did. -
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
The main issue of The Election of Abraham Lincoln is that he was a known abolitionist who won the presidential election by a landslide which made the South feel outnumbered and unrepresented. The South was mostly impacted because they felt like they weren't represented well anymore especially with Lincolns landslide win even though many Southern states didn't even put his name on the ballet. There was great tension between the North and South so much so that the South seceded.