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The Missouri Compromise was United States federal legislation that admitted Maine to the United States as a free state, simultaneously with Missouri as a slave state. It was admitted to keep the balance between the North and the South. This however failed to solve the problem of slavery and instead increased the amount of sectionalism between the North and South, which ultimately increased the conflict between them.

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The rebel consist of enslaved African Americas rising up and killing their owners they killed between 55 and 65 people, at least 51 of whom were white. This prompted legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people. It also created more conflict between the North and the South. Because the South killed 56 black people that participated in Nat Turner's rebellion, and more than 200 others were beaten by angry mobs or white militias.

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The Compromise dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion. California was admitted to the Union as a free state, Mexican cession was divided into the two territories of New Mexico and Utah and organized without mention of slavery, the claim of Texas to a portion of New Mexico was satisfied by a payment of $10 million, new legislation (the Fugitive Slave Act) was passed to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their masters; and, the buying and selling of slaves (but not slavery) was abolished in the District of Columbia. Some of the Sothern's disagreed with some of the bills and the north disagreed with the others.

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The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves. This created and extreme dislike for the Act because it required free states to return slaves to their owners.

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was an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe published in 1852. the novel shed light on the African Americans and slavery in the U.S., it increased the distance between the North and South. It also strengthened Northern abolitionism and weakened British sympathy for the South.

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The act allowed settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders. This went against the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery to be in remainder of the areas in the Louisiana Purchase. This caused a shift in power in the government and made it unbalanced.

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Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri he resided in Illinois (a free state) and in the Louisiana Territory, where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. After returning to Missouri, Scott filed suit in Missouri court for his freedom, claiming that his residence in free territory made him a free man. The court ruled that all African American free or enslaved are not United States citizens therefore they cannot sue in court. This increased tension around the issue of slavery in the US.

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the main issue discussed in all seven debates was slavery in the United States. Particularly its future expansion into new territories. The debate would  propel Lincoln's political career in to the national spotlight. Which would help to spread Lincoln's ideas on slavery which made him very popular in the North.

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Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln against Democratic Party nominee Senator Stephen Douglas. Lincoln won the election in an electoral college landslide with 180 electoral votes, although he secured less than 40 percent of the popular vote. Lincoln's presidency played a big role in starting the Civil War as his decisions resulted in start of the Civil War.

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1861 | The Battle of Fort Sumter (Start of the Civil War)

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1861 | The Battle of Fort Sumter (Start of the Civil War)

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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina. When Abraham Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, kicking off the Battle of Fort Sumter. After a 34-hour exchange of artillery fire, Anderson and 86 soldiers surrendered the fort on April 13. The Battle of Fort Sumter Is considered to be the start of the American Civil War as the first shots were fired.