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William C. Reynolds and J.C. Jones, 1856. Map of the United States that denotes free and slave states as well as the territory open to slavery or freedom by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise

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The Missouri Compromise made states above the 36 30 parallel line free states. The Missouri Compromise had a Political significance because it temporary relieved conflict between the North and South. It prevented the South from breaking away at the time and was a major root of sectionalism. It separated the North and South even more since it said that states above the 36 30 parallel if free white the ones below are slave state. The division through North America backfired and ultimately increased the amount of tension between the North and South.

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Theodore Kaufmann, 1850. The artwork is a criticism of the Fugitive Slave Acts, which mandated the return of escaped enslaved people to their owners.

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The Fugitive slave act had a social and a political significance due to it intensifying sectionalism and stopping the abolitionists in the North from being able to help slaves. Northern abolitionists were not able to really help them since they would have to go back to their owners if they tried getting into the free states. This provoked outrage within the North because they had to assist in capture for runaway slaves and it pushed the nation to war.

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Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZC4-4550)

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Rickey, Mallory & Company 1860. A lithograph depicting the presidential campaign represented by a boxing match for presidency.

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The Election of 1860 had a very big social and political significance because it was the election that President Lincoln won. Lincoln's win of the Election of 1860 was good and bad at the same time, as Lincoln wanted to stop the spread of slavery westward but the South didn't like that a anti-slavery guy was president.

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Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZC4-2088)

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James H. Burton, 1855. James H. Burton's 1855 Minié ball design (.58 caliber, 500 grains) from the Harpers Ferry Armory

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The Minié

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George Peter Alexander Healy, 1858. A painting of John Quincy Adams.

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The Corrupt Bargain had a big political significance because of how the Union made a bargain with the Confederates. When neither one of the candidates reached the required amount of votes to win, the Union made a deal with the Confederates. The deal was that John Quincy Adams was going to become President and that the Confederates

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Mathew B. Brady, 1865. Free Black Americans posing along a canal in Richmond, Virginia, April 1865.

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13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are passed as a way to grant more rights to Blacks in the U.S.

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Ended the reconstruction era, but racial struggles persist throughout the rest of the 19th and into the mid 20th century.