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The Missouri compromise of 1820
The missouri compromise included Henry clay and the congress of the united states. The compromise was about letting in Missouri as a slave state and letting in Maine as a free state. The event took place in 1819-1820 in the united states senate and house of representatives in the capital of the united states. The event of congress took place because congress did not want to disrupt the balance of slave to free states in the united states. It made history by keeping the balance in slave to free -
The Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso included David Wilmot and James k Polk. The Wilmot proviso proposed to congress that all states earned from the Mexican war were to be slave free. The event took place in the capital of the united states in congress in 1846. This event took place because some people in congress were abolitionists and wanted for everyone to be free and wanted the Mexican land to be free for the people who wanted to settle there. This made history with a fight for slave and free states. -
The compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a series of compromises by Henry clay and the congress of the united states. It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former’s favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. It took place to keep balance of states. -
The fugitive slave acts
The fugitive slave act/s were a series of acts upon the united states congress. The first was passed in 1793 and then in 1850.. In 1850, they revised and amended the bill for even harsher punishments for interfering with slave capture. The acts helped owners with their slaves recapture to take back south. This impacted history by inflaming the north into the abolitionist movement of black and white were both to free. -
uncle toms cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. this book showed us stowes point of view on slavery. it sold more then 300,000 copies back in its day! -
Kansas Nebraska Act / Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. -
dred scott case vs stanford
The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.from august 21st to october 15th 1858. -
John Brown’s Raid
John Brown's raid on Harper's 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.this lasted from october 16-18 1859 -
Lincoln’s Election of 1860
The United States Presidential Election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. The election of Lincoln served as the primary catalyst of the American Civil War. -
Southern Secession
The American Civil War was a civil war that was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. As a result of the long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861, when Confederate and northern state went to war aka the civil war
