-
3/5 Compromise
This Compromise was proposed by James Wilson and Roger Sherman, who were both delegates for the Constitutional Convention of 1787.It resolved the issue of counting slaves towards population to representation in the House of Representatives by counting five enslaves persons as three free people.This compromise will eventually led to the Civil War. -
Fugitive Slave Act 0f 1793
This act was made for runaway slaves who have escaped from other states to be caught and sent to their original owners.This act created a conflict between the North and the South since the northerners did not agree with this act while the south accepted.This eventually led to the Civil War. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
This rebellion was lead by Nat Turner a slave who created an army of African Americans to free black people in Southampton County, Virginia. They killed 60 white men, women, and children but were stopped and executed by state and federal troops. This event left Virginia with terror against all blacks.This attempt eventually led to the Civil War. -
Compromise Of 1850
This compromise was made by Henry Clay were the north got
California admitted as a free state and the south got no slavery restrictions in Utah or New Mexico territories.Both sides got a little bit of what they wanted but the south felt that the north gained the most part.It also added the fugitive-slave law.This event eventually led to the Civil War. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a anti-slavery novel that was written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe.It showed northerns the cruelty of slavery and it made them realize how slavery really was.It also inspired more efforts of abolition for slavery.This eventually led to the Civil War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act was passed in 1854 and proposed by Stephen A. Douglas that let people choose to have their states either free or slave state.The Act undid the Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibiting slavery north of latitude 36°30´.This gave conflict between the north and the south because they both opposed each other.This eventually led to the Civil War. -
"Bleeding Kansas"
This event happened after the Kansas-Nebraska Act between the anti-slavery and the pro slavery white men debating if Kansas should be free or slave between 1854 and 1861 by using violence.This event eventually led to the Civil War. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott was a Missouri slave who tried to sue for his freedom in court.He believed he was a free man since he had lived on a free state where slavery wasn't legal.At the beginning the court declared him free but later on they re-opened his case because John Sandford claimed that Scott was his property declaring that he could not be a free man because under the constitution Scott was private property.This event led to the Civil War. -
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown was an American abolitionist who led an group of 18 people into the U.S. arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia with the goal of getting the supplies and use them to arm a slave rebellion.John believed the only way he could achieve freeing slaves was by using violence.This event eventually led to the Civil War. -
The Election Of Lincoln
In the election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln won making the southern states secede from the union because Abraham was against slavery and the south did not give him much support. This eventually led to the Civil War.
