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Missouri Compromise
~The North and South were always arguing over the issue of slavery.
~Henry Clay the great compromiser settled the debates between them.
~The Missouri Compromise settled the ongoing argument of slavery settling the debate of free and slave states. -
Nullification Crisis
~Southern states: felt tariffs did not help in their favor but only helped the North.
~Vice President John C. Calhoun made notation that any state could go against any unconstitutional federal law.
~federal government did not pass the South's argument so South Carolina threatened to secede.
~Henry Clay made a compromise to lower tariffs -
Compromise of 1850
~The congress had divided debates on whether or not the states that were once apart the Mexican Cession would be free or slave states.
~Henry Clay the great compromiser came up with yet another solution
~California came in as a free state
~ Congress never passed a law abolishing slavery in the territory won from Mexico. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
~This act demanded capture of escaped Slaves in the North to be captured and sent back to the South.
~The law made tensions worse and fueled John Brown's Raid and American Civil War. -
Bleeding Kansas 1855
~In Kansas 5000 people from Missouri came and voted illegally in order to have proslavery representatives.
~People against slavery made their own government
~The for and against slave forces continued to clash and but heads.
~John Brown and others wanted to avenge this attack. -
Dred Scott Decision
~Dred Scott was the first slave to sue for his freedom.
~The Supreme Court made the ruling of he was not allowed to leave his owner because by the court of law he was deemed property and property does have due process. -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
~John Brown wanted slaves to fight for freedom. He wanted to capture the war room and arm the slaves.
~Brown and his men were captured
~Abolitionist saluted John Brown to his death and his actions raised America to a breaking point. -
Election of 1860
~Abraham Lincoln wins the election which came as a shock to the South because he was an abolishinist.
~Southern states started to secede due to Lincoln winning the election.
