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Wilmot Proviso
This bill attempted to ban slavery in all new territories gained in Mexican American war. The bill failed the senate. This was the south first attack on slavery. This caused a lot of conflict. -
Compromise of 1850
1.Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico. 2.California was admitted as a free state with its current boundaries. 3.Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory were allowed, under the principle of popular sovereignty, to decide whether to allow slavery. 4.The slave trade (but not slavery altogether) was banned in the District of Columbia. 5.A more stringent Fugitive Slave Law was enacted. The impact was that the free state balance was restored in the senate and conflict was avoided. -
Fugitive Slave Law
As part of the compromise of 1850, the fugitive slave act required all runaway slaves be returned to their owners. This was very controversial in the northern states as the slaves could no longer be free. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom Cabin was a book made by Harriet Beecher Stowe that revealed the horrors of a slave life. It increased awareness and recruitment of the abolitionist movement. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian". -
Kansas Nebraska Act
This said that Kansas and Nebraska could use popular sovereignty to decide whether or not to have slavery. This resulted in they both becoming free states. -
Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott case was when Dred Scott, a slave, was taken to a free state by his master. Scott sued saying that slavery was illegal in a free state so he should be free. However, the Supreme Court said that the Blacks people had no rights that the white man was to respect. This angered the northern states because on some level, they couldn't enforce their own laws. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 (also known as The Great Debates of 1858) were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. These debates popularized Lincoln and allowed him to gain enough popularity to win the presidency. -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia and giving it to slaves. The raid failed. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was where Abraham Lincoln ran for president. He had a huge anti-slavery stance and the south feared that he would try to abolish slavery. After Lincoln won, many southern states seceded from America and formed the confederate states of America. -
Fort Sumter
This was the first battle of the civil war. The south attacked the union garrison and layer siege to the fort. The south won the battle and the war had started.
