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3/5 Compromise
This compromise said that enslaved people within the US counted as 3/5 of a whole person when taking the US census. -
Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The Second Great Awakening, which spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching, sparked a number of reform movements. -
Missouri Compromise
Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri. -
Guatalupa Hidalgo
ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, to the United States. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". -
Start of Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a mini civil war between pro- and anti-slavery forces that occurred in Kansas. Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, thousands of Northerners and Southerners came to the newly created Kansas Territory so that it could either become a slave state or a anti-slave state. -
Kansas & Nebraska act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820. -
Dred Scott vs Sandford
In Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked the power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories. -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an 1859 effort by abolitionist, John Brown, to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. It only lasted 2 days starting, October 16 and ending, October 18. -
End of Bleeding Kansas
After Kansas went through a mini civil war caused by Northerners and Southerners pouring into Kansas to try and either support slavery or oppose slavery so that Kansas could become either a slave state or anti-slave state. It ended with a total of 56 people dying.
