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The Tallmadge amendment proposed that Missouri would enter the Union as a free state. The south were not happy with this, as they said that Congress had no right to decide on whether Missouri would be a slave or a free state. This was the first rise of tensions between the north and south, which eventually led to the Civil War.

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As Missouri was raising more questions in Congress, Maine also applied for statehood. This raised even more debate in Congress, and questions on the South breaking apart started to surface. Thus, a Compromise was reached in that Maine was deemed a free state and Missouri a slave state. At the same time, Congress drew an imaginary line at 36' 30' in which slavery was banned north of the line and permitted south of the line, except for Missouri, which would stay a slave state. This had major implications to the war, because

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The United States annexed Texas in 1845, 10 years after Texas' independence. Texas became a slave state later in that year. Texas was a country in which slavery was banned because of previous Mexican influence, but as it was annexed and brought into the Union as a slave state, which had the sou

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The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful proposal to completely ban slavery in the territory gained from the Mexican Cession. Southerners were naturally very against this decision saying Congress had no right to decide what to do with the slaves. This proposal sparked more hatred between the North and the South and proved an impossible task for Congress to please them both.

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The compromise of 1850 had multiple parts. It first made California a free state, which pleased the north. It then gave Utah and New Mexico Territories the decision on whether they actually wanted to have slavery or not, which pleased the south. It also banned the buying and selling of slaves, though it let the slaveowners there still own the slaves. This Compromise was not received well, though. The Northerners did not want to enforce the act, as they did not want to catch escaped slaves.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written by Harriet Breecher that told a tale of a slave named Uncle Tom and his cruel master Simon Legree, in which it showed the horrors of slavery to the Northerners. This book sparked much hatred in the Northerners about slavery, but was detested in the South, as it unraveled the truth about slavery.

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Stephen Douglas created the Kansas-Nebraska act, which created two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. The new territories had the choice of whether to be a slave or free state, abolishing the Missouri Compromise. While the South were happy with this, the North were infuriated, thinking about slavery going up the plains, and up the midwest. While Douglas tried to tell the North that Kansas and Nebraska won't be a slave state because of the terrible climate, The North weren't so sure, and started protesting against the act.

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The Dred Scott decision was a Supreme Court case regarding a slave named..Dred Scott. Scott and his owner went up to Wisconsin, which was a free state, and when they returned to Missouri, Scott sued his owner saying that because he went to a free state, he was now a free man. Of course, he lost 7-2, which raised huge protests in the North, souring the North and South's relationship even more.

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John Brown's raid  - Harpers Ferry (1859)

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John Brown's raid  - Harpers Ferry (1859)

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In this eyewitness drawing, U.S. marines are shown storming the arsenal at Harpers Ferry that was raided by John Brown and his men. On the day of his hanging, he left a note that read, “I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.”  Although the raid failed, it inflamed sectional tensions and raised the stakes for the 1860 presidential election.

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With his opposition divided three ways, Lincoln sailed to victory, but it was an odd victory. And that, wrote a South Carolina newspaper, would mean “the loss of liberty, property, home, country—everything that makes life worth having.” Lincoln being elected president had a huge effect on the civil war, as the south realized they had no control over American Politics, and thought of seceding out of the Union, which is what they did later in the year, starting the civil war.

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Raid on Lawrence, Kansas/Bleeding Kansas (1863)

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Raid on Lawrence, Kansas/Bleeding Kansas (1863)

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William Quantrill's raid on the Free-State town of Lawrence, Kansas (also known as the Lawrence Massacre) was a defining moment in the border conflict. At dawn on August 21, 1863, Quantrill and his guerrillas rode into Lawrence, where they burned much of the town and killed between 160 and 190 men and boys. By early 1854, with the United States expanding rapidly westward, Congress had begun debating a proposed bill to organize the former Louisiana Purchase lands then known as the Nebraska Territory.
To get crucial southern votes for the bill, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed an amendment that effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had outlawed the extension of slavery north of the 36º 30’ parallel (Missouri’s southern border) except in Missouri itself.