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The Missouri Compromise declared that all states north of 36 degrees would be free states, and states south of 36 degrees would be slave states. This proved to only be a temporary solution to the problem of slavery because the northern and southern states could not work together to find a solution.
https://www.history.com/topics/slavery/missouri-compromise

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Nat Turner was an enslaved man that led a rebellion. His rebellion had positive outcomes and negative outcomes. One positive outcome was that the family that had enslaved him were killed during the rebellion. One negative outcome was that many slaves were wrongly accused of participating in the rebellion.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner

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This was a piece of legislation proposed by David Wilmot that banned all slavery and forced labor in the states acquired through the Mexican-American war. This bill was protested by southerners because the southern states wanted to keep slavery in the new states.
https://www.history.com/news/wilmot-proviso-slavery

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The Free Soil Party was a political party established in 1848 that was strongly opposed to the expansion of slavery into the west. No Free Soil candidate won a presidential election, but the party did manage to pass anti-slavery legislation in the senate.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Free-Soil-Party

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This piece of legislation stated that California would become a free state. This bill faced opposition from pro-slavery politicians, but it managed to pass.
https://www.history.com/topics/slavery/compromise-of-1850

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This act authorized police officers in free states to capture slaves and return them to their owners. This resulted in many people being falsely accused of being slaves, and being sent to plantations in the south. Henry David Thoreau was a politician that spoke against this act.
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Slavery_Massachusetts.html

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This act repealed the Missouri Compromise, and added two new US territories that would become either slave or free states based on what the citizens of these new territories believed. Stephen Douglas drafted this act because he believed that the federal government should not be in control of everything. This act resulted in fighting between the abolitionists and pro-slavery people in the new territories.
https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/kansas-nebraska-act

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This was a period of fighting in the Kansas Territory that foreshadowed the Civil War. This violence largely occurred because of the repeal of the Missouri compromise, as the people could not reach an agreement over slavery on their own.
https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/bleeding-kansas

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This was a court case in which an Dred Scott, (Right) an enslaved man, tried to sue for his freedom since he had been residing in a free state. The Supreme Court ruled that he did not have any rights because he was enslaved. This shows that the Supreme Court cannot always be trusted because they sometimes make biased decisions.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/dred-scott-case

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Aug 21, 1858-Oct 15, 1858)

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Aug 21, 1858-Oct 15, 1858)

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This was a series of presidential debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Stephen Douglas stated the Freeport Doctrine (a territory should decide whether or not to allow slavery by Popular Sovereignty) on August 27, 1858. This made him more popular among people that supported states' rights, and less popular among believers in a stronger federal government.
https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/lincoln-douglas-debates

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John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry (Oct 16, 1859 - Oct 18, 1859

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John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry (Oct 16, 1859 - Oct 18, 1859

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This was an attempt by abolitionist John Brown to take over the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and initiate a slave revolt after the fact. Although some people died during this raid, John Brown was justified in doing this because it demonstrated a message that abolitionists were willing to resort to violence to abolish slavery.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-browns-raid-on-harpers-ferry

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This election had one Republican candidate (Abraham Lincoln) and two Democratic candidates (Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge). Abraham Lincoln was able to win the election because the north and west were unified in favor of him, while the south was divided between the two Democratic candidates.
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/election-of-1860

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The southern states felt that their way of life, which included slavery, was threatened by Abraham Lincoln and the republicans, so they seceded from the US and formed the Confederacy. This could not have been a long-term solution because the north would try to gain the territory back.
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/secession

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This battle was the official beginning of the Civil War. The Confederate army took over Fort Sumter in South Carolina during this battle. Abraham Lincoln soon heard of this, and immediately sent state militias to stop the rebellion.
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/fort-sumter