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Compromise of 1850
Kept the nation united,but only temporary. Over the following decade the country's citizens became further divided over the issue of slavery. The rift continued to grow until the nation itself divided. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Forced any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a fine. It encouraged the use of the Underground Railroad and it drove the North and South further apart. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Became the most discussed work of fiction in the United States, the novel influenced feelings about slavery and strengthened the abolitionist cause in the North, which caused many southerners to fear the victory of an anti-slavery president like Lincoln. -
Harriet Tubman Starts Working With The Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman began her work with the Underground Railroad. This was a network of antislavery activists who helped slaves escape from the South.Over a period of ten years Tubman made an estimated 19 expeditions into the South and personally escorted about 300 slaves to the North. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Opened the question of slavery back up in areas where the issue had previously already been decided.The territories of Kansas and Nebraska were supposed to be free territories. Slavery was not supposed to be allowed there, but then the Kansas-Nebraska Act reopened the issue by putting the question of slavery in those territories up to "popular sovereignty." This angered many in the North because they saw it as evidence of the government caving in to the South. -
Bleeding Kansas 1855-1861
The fierce hate that had fed violence in Kansas and Missouri continued and impacted how the Civil War was fought on the Missouri-Kansas border. In addition, the atmosphere in Kansas, and the media’s portrayal, spurred tensions nationally and was one of the events that helped to bring on the Civil War. -
Dred Scott Decision of 1857
Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom. The Dred Scott case destroyed the delicate agreement between slave and free states and created national anger that helped lead to the Civil War. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Anti slavery fanatic that commited the pottawatomie creek massacre. On the night of October 16, 1859, Brown and his band overran the federal arsenal. Some of his men rounded up a handful of hostages, including a few slaves. Word of the raid spread and by the following day Brown and his men were surrounded. -
Election of 1860
After, President Abraham Lincoln was elected he stated that where slavery existed it can continue, but he will not allow it to spread every where in the USA What mainly started the Civil War was the south seceding or leaving from The UR'S They felt as if the government was getting to strong. They claim that they had no choice but to leave. -
Violence in the Senate 1851-1856
Beating of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks after Sumner's ''Crime Against Kansas speech.''
