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Nat Turner Rebellion
This was a slave rebellion lead by Nat Turner in Virginia that lead to 55-65 people killed, the rebellion was put down swiftly in 2 days, but Nat escaped only to be found 2 months later in hiding. This lead to stricter slave laws and a spark to the major controversy between the Northern and Southern states, where slave rights would be brought up so much that a gag rule had to be implemented to keep the congress subject off slavery. This also brought up more moral topics about slavery as well. -
Texas Independence
This was the result of the rebellion of U.S immigrants ( both illegal and legal) believing that there rights were being violated when Mexico adopted a new constitution that created a stronger central government and dissolved state legislature, thusly a rebellion and eventual indepdance from Mexico, creating tension between Mexico and U.S as well as even more future tension between the Northern and Southern from North fear of slave states having too much power from such a large amount of land. -
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Conflicts leading up to Civil war
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Mexican American war
A war between Mexico and U.S over land that was caused by the U.S annexing Texas, this caused a rise in a political party named the Conscience Whigs, who thought that Polk was waging war to add more slave states with the gained from the war. Leading to the Wilmont Provis, stating that all land won by the war would be free states. This outraged the Southern Democrats, both from the nw combative party and the suggestion made by them, further fueling tensions between the North and the South. -
Free Soil Movement
An group of people that’s wanted cheap to free land that was gained to the south, as well as to fight slavery from becoming a permanent part of the national law. This drew attention to movement through notable speakers against slavery, such as Fredrick Douglass, and spread the word of anti-slavery campaigns and helping untie some of the abolitionist against the Southern pro-slavery ideals, sparking contravesy and even more arguments about the topic. -
Compromise of 1850
Made by Henry Clay, created new laws and rules that were used to satisfy both the North and South, but ended up pushing each further apart by angering the South with abolishing the slave trade in the Columbia district and adding California as a free state, breaking the slave state boundaries set by the Missouri Compromise, and angered the North with the Fugitive Slave Act, causing the North to create more laws to protect the rights of its citizens. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
An act that declared the new territory gained from the Mexican-American war would allow for popular sovereignty, or the right for a state to vote whether to be a slave or free state. This lead to Bleeding Kansas, where people who were for and against slavery went to occupy Kansas and fight for the popular vote, rather brutally. This also repeeled the Misouri comprimise and caused controversy and anger between both sides on the topic of slave states -
Dred Scott v. Stanford
A court case where a the slave Dred Scott tried to sue for independence since his master took him into a slavery-free state. This need with the court ruling against him 7-2 with Taney stating that slave are property and not citizens, and thusly cannot sue or have and citizen rights and that also slave owners cannot bring their property into free states. This outraged the North with this open dismal of human rights, causing a frenzy of news spread around the North bashing this ruling. -
The Lincoln-Douglas debates
A series of arguments between Douglas and Lincoln a for seat in Senate. This lead to a series of 7 contraversal arguments that further stirred the fury of the pro and anti slavery populous, with Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech and pro equal rights for blacks and Stephen’s siding with white supremacy, drew even more attention to the topic. The debates also created the Freeport Doctrine, which didn’t please either side with it’s option to exclude slavery if a state’s laws wouldn’t protect it. -
John Brown’s Raid
An effort by John Brown to cause a major slave rebellion that would abolish slavery, he tired to raid a Virginian arsenal with 18 heavily armed black and white men to give arms to slaves to cause the rebellion. This strikes fear in the Southern Democrats as well as fuel for insulting the Republican Party. This further divides the two parties by showing how real this disagreement is and what people are willing to do to achieve their ideals for the country. -
Abraham Lincoln election
The election of 1860, where Lincoln won with not votes from the south The election of Abraham Lincoln was the final straw for the South, who threatend succession if a republican, which was stirred by the fear of a president that would eliminate slavery and Calhoun’s literature, and thusly the south started to succeed. This was major controversy durning the time of the election with both sides viciously fighting to win approval for their candidate.
