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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a compromise to keep the Senate equal. This would make the northern states free states and the southern states slave states. The slaves states and the free states would have an equal amount of states free and slave. 36-30 would become the new line to decide what states were free and which were slave. -
Compromise of 1850
This compromise allowed California to become a free state, and the Mexican territories to be divided into 2 states, New Mexico, and Utah -
Fugitive Slave Act
This act requires all people to catch slaves that have escaped their masters. This act also jailed and fined people who were found helping the slaves escape. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
This novel was a book to show the injustices of slavery and the injustices of the fugitive slave act. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephan Douglas didn't want there to be another free state in the north. So they divided two territories into Kansas and Nebraska and they can decide in the territory's weather they want slavery or not. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave that moved with his owner to a free state. After the owner died, Dred Scott was in a court case to decide weather he should be free or not. Eventually he was freed because he was in a free state at the time of death. -
John Brown's Raid on the Harpers
John Brown was an abolitionist that lead African-Americans to help in a raid against the south. This raid was to help free African-Americans that were being held there. -
South Carolina Secedes
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Federal Union. South Carolina was closely followed by Texas, Alabama, Florida, and George. -
Election of 1860
The Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes.