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The ultimatum that caused the outbreak of the civil war. Secession had been in the forefront of southerners minds as the north continued to restrict slavery and work towards abolishing it. With slavery so ingrained in their way of life, Southerners could not fathom having it be stripped away by Northerners.

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Radical abolitionist, fought in bleeding kansas and led a violent raid on harpers ferry.

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pitted Republican Abraham Lincoln against Democratic Party Senator Stephen Douglas. The main issue of the election was slavery and states’ rights. This election would decide the fate of the union.

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A ruling by the Supreme Court which stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the US and therefore could not expect the same rights and privileges granted to a citizen by the federal government or the supreme courts.
This increased support for abolitionists.

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Founded in 1854 as a coalition to resist the westward expansion of slavery. Would grow to be THE party for anti-slavery and opposition to southern Democrats

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Beat by a cane. He was a big anti-slavery abolishment leader, and part of the republican party.

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Kansas was occupied by pro and anti-slavery political groups. Violent outbreaks among these groups continued until Kansas was admitted as a free state, due to popular sovereignty.
What was once a political fight now turned physical, and soon national.

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Effectively repealing the Missouri Compromises ban on the westward of expansion of slavery, this compromise would polarize the union even more and lead to secession of the southern states

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The idea that all political power is vested within the people.  This was used to decide whether states would enter the union as a free state or a slave state depending on the a vote by the states inhabitants. This caused the events known as bleeding kansas

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Influential leader who was a big player in the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska act. Finished second to Lincoln in the 1860 election as the Democratic party's nominee

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A book that illustrated the horrors of slavery. It became widely popular and bolstered the anti-slavery position. Southern Democrats called it northern aggression.

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A law that said any slave who escaped enslavement and was found had to be returned back to the south to their owner. It was amended in the 1850 compromise to give greater support to slave owners

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Admitted California as a free state, a boundary between Texas and the US, abolished slave trade in Washington DC and amended the fugitive slave act.
The amendments of the fugitive slave act were particularly unpopular, as it threatened sectional peace. This would lead to greater opposition of slavery, and increase support for abolishment of slavery.

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A failed 1846 proposal that would ban the extension of slavery into newly acquired western territories from the mexican-american war.
Mainly backed by free soilers.

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Free soil party focused on one issue, preventing the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
Gained more support as the whig party fell apart

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Upon escaping slavery, he became a popular abolitionist leader
The fugitive slave act made it harder for escaped slaves like Douglas to assimilate into the northern population.

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Whigs opposed spread of slavery, not eliminate it but contain it.
As internal disputed raised and lost elections, the party splintered and fell apart, with northern whigs backing the free soil party

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Political party whos supporters were pro slavery. Perceived any northern advance on prohibiting the expansion of slavery as an attack on their way of life

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Admitted missouri as a slave state and maine as a free state and no slave states above 36 30 longitude latitude. Prolonged the slavery debate.

The Compromise of 1850 repealed this longitude latitude line and allowed slavery to expand westward

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The only successful slave revolution that ever happened.

John brown also tried to insinuate a slave revolution. It did not work.