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The Missouri Compromise was a conclusion prompted by the controversial decision of adding Missouri to the United States.

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The two important compromises reached were that Missouri would be added as a slave state and that a new boundary would be established across the remainder of the Louisiana Territory, preventing the spread of slavery to any other states north of the 36th parallel.

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Fugitive slaves were slaves who attempted to escape slavery, often assisted by northerners.

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The Compromise of 1850 included four compromises in total. As an addition, California would be added as a free state, and New Mexico and Utah would be allowed to vote for themselves. Slave markets were banned in Washington, D.C. and the Fugitive Slave Act was implemented.

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The Fugitive Slave Act forced both northerners and southerners to participate in the prevention of escaping slaves.

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The Kansas - Nebraska Act was an effort to promote Kansas and Nebraska to statehood instead of just unorganized territories. This could challenge the border of the spread of slavery and affect the northerners and southerners.

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Pro-slavery “border ruffians” targeted and attacked abolitionists in Kansas. Meanwhile, Jayhawking abolitionists attempted to terrorize pro-slavery families.

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The Dred-Scott case resulted in two rulings: Scott had no right to sue his owner, because, as an African American slave, he was not, nor could be, a U.S. citizen, and that Scott's stay in Wisconsin could not have made him a free man, because the Missouri Compromise itself was unconstitutional. The decision held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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Lincoln forced Douglas to publicly explain his stance on the issue of slavery, and though he lost against Douglas, Lincoln left a lasting impression on the north, where support for abolition was gaining momentum.

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Lincoln won the presidential election with just 40 percent of the votes, all of them cast in the North. For white southerners, this meant the South was now in the minority, leading to the fear that the North would once again try to abolish slavery.

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The North and South have gradually grown more divided because of their distinctly different political opinions, leading to the South's eventual secession.