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Northwest Ordinance
This was the first time that we as a nation added organized terriroty. The main siginigance of this was that it prohibited slavery, which sets up issues when this territory wants to become a state. -
Eli Whitney' s Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney put in a patent for the Cotton Gin, which will lead to Southern Plantations making more money and the institution of slavery to be revived. -
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Union in Crisis
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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
These resolutions, written by Jefferson and Madison against the Alien and Sedition Acts, introduced the Doctrine of Nullification, which we see again with the Tariff of Abomination. -
Embargo Act of 1807
This act made it impossoble to trade with Europe, making Northern merchants angry,and also Southern planters. This is one of the first times that we see the 2 sections of the country seperate. -
Misouri Compromise
This was the first attempt at deciding the issue of slavery in the west. It set up the Mason Dixon line, in which all territories south would come in as slave states and all north of the line would come in a free states. -
Tariff of Abominations
This protective tariff helped northern merchants, but hurt southern planters. This led to the Nulification Crisis in 1832, in which South Carolina tried to nullify, or cancel out federal law. -
Nat Turners Slave Revolt
This Salve Revolt, led by slave Nat Turner, forced southerners into embracing slavery for the power it had to supress such revolts from happening. It also made slavery worse and more strict for those in bondage. -
Comprimise of 1850
California enters as a free state, and Utah and New Mexico are up to Popular Soverginty. It also tightened the Fugitive Slave Act. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolisionist, and helped to progress the anti-slavery cause in the north by giving people who had no experience with slavery a "first hand" account. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This created the potential for slavery north of the Mason Dixon line through popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska. -
Bleeding Kansas
Due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Free Soilers and Pro-Slavery "armies" would fight a small microcosm of the Civil War over slavery in Kansas. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
The Supreme Court decided in favor of southern slaveholders, and stated that slaves were property, and argued that congress could not ban slavery in any territory because that would take away the right to property of those slave owners. This effectlivly cancelled the Missouri Compromise -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown was a free-soiler who wanted Kansas to be a Free State. He wanted to start an open slave revolt and went to the armory at Harpers Ferry to get guns for the newly escpaed slaves. He was defeated by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines.
