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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise was an effort for congress to split the states in half from North and South states. Congress made up so the North was no slavery, and the South was allowed to use slavery. The Missouri Compromise will start at the middle of the Mississippi River and come across the whole United states, splitting the country in 2. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was an act that was designated to eliminate slavery. After the war started, James K. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million dollars to try to negotiate a treaty. Scared of the addition of a new slave state, congressman of Pennsylvania David Wilmot proposed his amendment to the bill. It enflamed the controversy of slavery. It helped create the Republican party. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was an attempt to avert a crisis from the North and the South. The senator Henry Clay proposed this compromise. It consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate. -
Fugitive slave act
The fugitive slave act involved fugitive slaves from the south trying to get to the north to escape slavery. This was made because slave owners kept coming to the north to recapture their slaves into slavery. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
The book Uncle Tom's Cabin is written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It´s about a many slave stories and talks about their experience in slavery. The novel, first serialized in newspapers and then published in 1852 as a two-volume work, enjoyed tremendous success in the United States and abroad, most notably in England. The book impacted the united states through starting a war. The northerners read the things going on in the south, and were horrified. It influenced a war between the north and south. -
Kansas Nebraska Act/ Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854 undid previous legislation that limited the expansion of slavery, such as the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850. A civil war outbreak in Kansas started creating a bloody fight, called Bleeding Kansas. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
The Lincoln Douglas debate was about if there should be slavery in the North only, South only, Both or Neither. This debate would decide the future of our nation. At the end of the debate, Douglas won and Lincoln lost. And there was slavery in the South only. -
Dread Scott case
Dred scott against his former wight owner who owned him as a slave. This event took place at the supreme court of the united states as former hearings said that they don't want to sew the slave owner. How its impact was that the court said that dredd was not a man and was a slave. And it also stated that they will not allow him to sew the slave owner for slavery the court said he couldn't and the slave owner could capture him back into slavery. Slaves were not seen as citizens to the country. -
John Brown’s Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown was an abolitionist in the north. He used the bible as motivation for his violence. He was a man who believed violence outtakes violence. John brown initiated the slave revolt of 1859. He took over a United states arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
Abraham lincoln.why the event of him vs the democrat is it was basically the anti slavery activists vs the pro slavery activists. What took place was too people went running against each other and Abraham Lincoln was the better man. -
Secession of Southern States
This event caused the south to secede from the nation and Abraham Lincoln was the new president. This event affected history as we know it today. This secede from the union would eventually start the civil war.
