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Alarmed senators formed a committee to search for yet another compromise that might hold the nation together. They knew that finding one would not be easy, but they still had to do something to stop the rush toward disunion and disaster.

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Lincoln sailed to victory, but it was an odd victory. Lincoln won the presidential election with just 40 percent of the votes, all of them cast in the North.

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John Brown adopted a more extreme approach. Rather than wait for Congress to act, Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

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Lincoln's opponent in the Senate race was Senator Stephen Douglas, an Illinois senator who saw no reason why the nation could not go on half-slave and half-free.Douglas argued that the Dred Scott decision had put the slavery issue to rest, but Lincoln disagreed.

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In 1857, the slavery controversy shifted from Congress to the Supreme Court, which was about to decide a case concerning a Missouri slave named Dred Scott.

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The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. In 1856, Sumner voiced his suspicions in a passionate speech called “The Crime Against Kansas.”

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In 1854, settlers poured into Kansas. Most were peaceful farmers looking for good farmland, but some settlers moved to Kansas either to support or to oppose slavery.

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Northerners were horrified by slavery were roused to fury by two events in 1854.President Franklin pierce ,who had been taken in 1853 had been trying to purchase the island in Cuba.

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In the north and south they were unhappy for many reasons of the fugitive slave act.North did not want to enforce the act,south felt the act did not do enough to enforce the act.

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Sound Smart: Compromise of 1850 | History

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January 21, 1850,Henry Clay now a senator form Kentucky, trudged through a Washington snowstorm to par a call in Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts.

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In 1849,California applied for admission to the Union as a free state. Northerners accepted California,while southerns didn't.

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War & Expansion: Crash Course US History #17

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In 1846, President James Polk sent a bill to Congress asking for funds for the war with Mexico. Wilmot Proviso stated'''Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist".Southerners in Congress strongly opposed Wilmots amendment.

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Sound Smart: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | History

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The fugitives from slavery were often helped in their escape by sympathetic people in the North.Every time a slave escaped it was seeing their land vanished into thin air.

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ch 9) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom

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The Missouri Compromise unravel of 1800s

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The Missouri Compromise unravel of 1800s

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John Quincy Adams predicted,for a time the"contest"over slavery was settled.During the 1830s, abolitionists flooded Congress with antislavery petitions,but they were told that congress had no power to be involved with slavery in the states.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and also Main was as a free state.Missouri wanted to be a free state. In the North people voted for that the Missouri could be a free state.