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missouri compromise
to try and solve the sectional and political problems of Missouri applying as a slave state they entered Maine as a free state and declared no slave state allowed above the 36’30’ line having 11 free and 11 slave. It was significant because it set where the north and south was and what was allowed on each side of that line. -
wilmot proviso
he forbade slavery in all the new territories that the United States gained from Mexico and passed in the House but not the Senate. It is significant because it raised tensions in the South as it brought up the issue again and they felt they were trying to end slavery when they just wanted to stop the spread. -
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mexican american war
broke out because of the annexation of Texas in a dispute of where the southern border should be and has a significance because it can be viewed as an invitation for war from Mexico as they killed 11 Americans after a treaty was already done with the leader of the mexican army that was captured. -
compromise of 1850
California entered into the Union, divided the Mexican Cession into Utah and New Mexico and for them to decide to have slavery by vote, give land dispute between Texas and New Mexico to new territories, ban all slave trade in the district of columbia but whites could still hold slaves, and a new Fugitive Slave Act and enforced it. This was a confrontation between slave and free states regarding the new territories -
fugitive slave law
this was part of the Compromise of 1850 and enforced that runaway slaves be returned and wanted authorities in free states to help return the fugitive slaves to their masters. The significance is that this gave southerners the power to capture slaves that have runaway and became free and it was very unpopular in the north because they were anti slavery. -
uncle toms cabin
this is an anti slavery novel that was written when the fugitive slave laws were strengthened. This book was banned in the south as it angered them as they saw is a prejudice as it portrayed slave owners as cruel and inhuman. This is significant because it is seen as a tipping point for the Civil War as Lincoln said her book “started the war” as it showed the relationship between slaves and the brutal owners. -
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bleeding kansas
series of violent events in US came from a political and idea debate over the legality of slavery in the new state of Kansas. Charles Sumner was the senator of MA, he made a speech attacking Democrats and charged against the SC senator, Andrew Butler, Preston Brooks, Butler’s nephew, defended his uncle by beating Sumner over the head with a cane. The significance of these is bleeding kansas is viewed as some of the first battles of civil war because these forces ignited the issues of slavery. -
Kansas Nebraska Act (Popular Sovereignty)
when bringing in the states Kansas and Nebraska the act of popular sovereignty was brought into play as the people of the states were allowed to vote on whether or not slavery would be allowed in the state. This repealed the Missouri Compromise as the states were above the allowed line of slavery. This act is significant because it caused many tensions to rise in the North and South as both sides were living in Kansas and ended up making separate governments. -
lecompton constitution
kansas was split up over the fight of slavery and this was the second constitution for the kansas territory written by pro slavery supporters saying that free blacks couldn’t live in kansas, permitted slavery, and only white male citizens could vote. This is significant because of the flood of pro slavery advocates into Kansas made it a slave state angering the North -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
a slave from Missouri soon went to Wisconsin, a free state, for a few years and when returning to Missouri felt that he should be able to be free and the court ruled against him because the framers of the Constitution never intended on African-Americans to be citizens and they were viewed as property. This is a significant event because it was declared that slaves could not and would not be counted as a citizen or try to pursue in suing the Federal Court. -
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
it was a series of debates between Abraham Lincoln, the republican candidate for senate in illinois, and Stephen Douglas, the Democratic party candidate both trying to get a seat on the senate in illinois. This is significant because in these debates the issues of slavery and popular sovereignty came up frequently. -
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John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown and some of his followers went to the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry in goal to arm the group for a slave rebellion, but in the raid John ended up being captured and later hanged. This is significant because he became an anti slavery icon as an abolitionist and put a fear in southerners when it came to slave uprisings and invasion of armed abolitionists. -
Crittenden Compromise
The compromise proposed six constitutional amendments and four Congressional resolutions. Crittenden introduced the package on December 18. ... Republicans said the compromise "would amount to a perpetual covenant of war against every people, tribe, and state owning a foot of land between here and Tierra del Fuego." this is significant because it was an attempt to prevent the secession of southern states to avoid the civil war. -
South Carolina secedes from the Union
When the ordinance was adopted on December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. James Buchanan, the United States president, declared the ordinance illegal but did not act to stop it. this is significant because this formed the confederacy -
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Attack on Ft. Sumter.
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War. The intense Confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson's small Union garrison in the unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, had been preceded by months of siege-like conditions.