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The Missouri Compromise was law that had been trying to address the sectional tensions on the issue of slavery. President James monroe had passed and signed the law which admitted Missouri into the union as a state that allowed slavery and Maine as a free state.

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Denmark Vesey was a carpenter who was formerly enslaved. He had planned a revolt against the goverment where he would execute white enslavers. This would occur in Charleston, South Carolina during Bastille day. Authorities had found out about the soon to happen revolt and Vesey had been arrested along with his men.

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The Nullification Crisis was a confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal goverment. The federal goverment wanted the south to pay the tariff.

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Nat Turner was an enslaved man who led a rebellion of people who were enslaved, servants, and poor white farmers. This rebellion occurred in Southampton County, Virginia, and caused a massacre of 200 black people and made a new wave of oppression.

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The Texas War for independence was a war fought between Mexico and Texas colonists. Texas had gained its independence from Mexico

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The Mexican American War was fought Between Mexico and America.  It stemmed from the annexation of texas in 1845 with the dispute being if texas ended at the Nueces river or the Rio Grande.

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The Wilmot Proviso was a congressional proposal made by David Wilmot to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territories. This proposal would never be approved despite the House passing it several times to no avail.

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Passed by Congress and senator Henry Clay, this act required that all fugitive slaves whether in free states or slave that they would be returned back to their owners. This act also made the federal government responsible for finding and returning escaped slaves.

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The Abolitionist Movement was an organized effort to end the practice of slavery. It was led by people like Federick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and John Brown and began in places like New York and Massachusetts. The movement didn't completely cease until 1870 when the passage of the fifth amendment extended voting rights to black men.

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The Ostend Manifesto was a declaration from Ostend, Belgium by the U.S. ministers to England, France, and Spain. The declaration stated that the U.S. would be justified in taking Cuba if Spain didn't sell them it.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was made by Senator Douglas of Illinois. It repealed the Missouri Compromise infuriating antislavery and proslavery activists where they flooded into other territories to sway the vote causing a violent uprising called bleeding Kansas

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The Dred Scott Case was a 10-year-long fight for freedom by a black man named Dred Scott. This case continued through 7 courts where it finally reached the Supreme Court, which denied him the legality of black citizenship in America. This gave abolitionists momentum for the anti-slavery movement.

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An abolitionist named John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal army in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia to attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and end the institution of slavery. They overran an arsenal and collected hostages, by morning, word spread of this raid everywhere until a group of U.S. Marines had seized the raid. John Brown was eventually found guilty and executed for his actions.

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Abraham Lincoln of the Republican party was pivoted against Stephen Douglas of the Democratic party. The main focus of the issue for choosing a president was the problem of slavery and states rights. Lincoln was successful as we all know in becoming the 16th president of the United States.