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Missouri Comprimise
When they wanted to admit Missouri as a slave state they had to make the balance equal and make Maine a free state. If the slave states got more states congress could make slavery legal if they wanted to. It was a fight between the north and the south. The event took place because the north and south wanted more states. -
Wilmont Proviso
It was designed to ban slavery in the land that they fought for in the Mexican american war. In the new territory that america won in the mexican american war they were trying the ban the use of slavery in the territory. It was in the Texas annexation where they were trying to figure all this out. -
Compromise of 1850
It was when they admitted California and Oregon into the union as a free states, Utah and new mexico territories into popular sovereignty and Texas as a slave state. It was the idea of Henry Clay. It helped the north get more free states than slave states. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The law where southern slave owners could just take any escaped slave of theirs without asking anyone. A lot of people would take a slave that escaped 10 years ago. It got so bad that slave owners would just take any black person. It happened because slave owners were getting really mad at all the slaves that were escaping so they made that a law. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
It was a book made by Harriet Beecher Stowe to inform others about how slaves were treated. A lot of slave owners were appalled by that book. Some say her book started the civil war. Harriet was a women's rights activist as well as a slave activist. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
This is where they Nebraska territory and the Kansas territory be popular sovereignty. This was a good idea until pro-slavery and antislavery people started rushing in to try to make it what kind of territory they wanted.This caused many fights and riots that lead to it being a unsafe territory. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave that lived in the free state of Illinois. He met a lawyer and tried to fight of his freedom since he was in a free state. It took ten years to go through the court system. I that time he got sold to another slave owner. In the end he lost his case. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Lincoln-Douglas debates definition. A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858, when both were campaigning for election to the United States Senate from Illinois. Much of the debating concerned slavery and its extension into territories such as Kansas. They traveled all over Illinois campaigning in cities, Lincoln usually followed Douglas to each city. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harpers Ferry; in many books the town is called "Harper's Ferry") was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. This changed the view point of the south about how the north is messed up. -
Lincoln's Election of 1860
The 1860 presidential election pitted four candidates against each other: Stephen Douglas for the Northern Democrats, John C. Breckenridge for the Southern Democrats, John Bell for the Constitutional Union Party, and Abraham Lincoln for the Republican Party. The states needed a new leader and when Lincoln was elected it was sure to be the beginning of the Civil War. -
Southern Secession
This involved pretty much everyone in the U.S. at the time because it was the division of the country into two parts The Union and The Confederacy. After Abraham Lincoln was elected the southern states didn't like his beliefs and ideas so they broke off starting with SC and started their own country so they could have their own government. This impacted history because still today when the Confederacy is lost and dead, people still believe in their wrong ideas and fly the confederate flag high.
