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Missouri Compromise
A settlement of a argument between slave and free states, contained in several laws passed during 1820 and 1821. Northern legislators had tried to get rid of slavery in Missouri, which was then applying for statehood. -
The Nullification Crisis
Constitutional struggle between some states and President Andrew Jackson. The states didn't want to pay the protective tariff that Jackson wanted, and the states claimed the right to "nullify," or declare the tariff. -
Compromise of 1850
A set of laws, passed in between groups favoring slavery and groups not liking it, that attempted to give something to both sides. -
Bleeding Kansas 1855
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory. -
Dred Scott Decision
A controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the Civil War, The Court also said the Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery in certain areas, and their slaves. -
attack On Harpers Ferry
In 1859, a year and a half before the start of the Civil War, abolitionist John Brown tried to lead a slave increase in Virginia. His efforts cost him his life, but his cause lived on when the slaves were set free six years later.
