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Missouri Compromise
In an effort to keep the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820. Making Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state. Henry Clay was the one who had led the compromise.The United States had been divided evenly between free and slave states, and At this time the United States only had 22 states. This event increased tension between the north and the south due to the fact that they are being more separated by this compromise. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. Rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white. After the Rebellion Nat Turner was trialed and he was convicted and hanged. Also after the rebellion Nat Turner was in hiding for more than two months. This event increased tensions between the North and South due to the fact that the rebellion frighten towards an uprising. -
Election of 1844
The United States presidential election of 1844 was the 15th quadrennial presidential election, held from November 1, to December 4, 1844. Democrat James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay. Turned on the controversial issues of slavery and the annexation of the Republic of Texas. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War. California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah.The compromise put California as a free state it did not regulate slavery in the remainder of the Mexican cession. all while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves. The Act was enacted by 31st United States Congress. It declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters. This law is clearly an act of sectionalism. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.The book inspired and helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States.This story showed the reality of slaves and that they were actually people and deserved to be treated that way, increasing the sectionalism between north and south over the issue of slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which came from a political debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. Kansas is an staging ground for what some people argue is the first battles of the Civil War battlefield on which the forces of anti-slavery and the forces of slavery meet.Bleeding Kansas was a small war between Northerners and Southerners over the issue of slavery in the United States. -
Nebraska Kansas Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in 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. The Kansas-Nebraska act opened new lands for settlement, had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise by letting settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty. -
Brooks Attacks Sumner
Brooks Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856. In the United States Senate when Representative Preston Brooks used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner. An abolitionist, in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely. -
Dred Scott v Stanford
Dred Scott v. Sanford was a 1857 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, tried to sue for his freedom on the grounds that his master moved him to a free territory.The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional, and that the federal government could not prohibit slavery in any state or territory.Effects of the dred Scott decision on sectionalism & the secession of the south. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.Lincoln and Douglas decided to hold one debate in each of the nine congressional districts in Illinois. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene.South were shocked and angered that the North celebrated the man that destroyed the South's property -
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated the rest. Southerners feared that his election would lead to its demise, and vowed to leave the Union if he was elected. Slavery was a issue in the 1850's, dividing the United States, with the northern against slavery and the Southerners for it. Lincoln, ran in the Republican Party, stated that slavery would not spread any farther than it already had.