The Gathering Storm by:Sara Doyle by Sara Doyle

The Missouri compromise of 1820

sara_doyle1 — 2018-04-27 16:04:54 UTC

An agreement in 1820 were Missouri and Maine were both added to the Union, but Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, to keep the balance in the  Union. They chose lines at 36*30' latitude across the Louisiana Purchase and North of this line slavery is banned forever.

The Missouri Compromise Unravels

sara_doyle1 — 2018-04-27 16:16:41 UTC

A powerful force was building that soon pushed the issue of slavery into the light again, The Second Great Awakening, religious leaders promised God would bless all who did God's work, for some this work was to abolish slavery all over forever.

Fugitive Slaves

sara_doyle1 — 2018-04-27 16:30:06 UTC

The Nat Turner's rebellion was one of the largest slave revolts. Many slaves participated by running away to freedom. Theses slaves were often helped by the sympathetic Northern people.To slaveholders who saw them as property demanded congress pass a law to help them recapture their property.

Slavery in the Territories

sara_doyle1 — 2018-04-27 16:39:46 UTC

The gag rule kept slavery out of congress for 10 years. They added an amendment know as the Wilmot Proviso, it stated neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of territory acquired from mexico.

Statehood in California

sara_doyle1 — 2018-05-03 16:04:32 UTC

As a compromise southerners proposed a bill that would extend the Missouri Compromise line all the way the the Pacific, slavery would only be allowed south of that line, but this was rejected. In 1849 California applied to the Union as a free state but was denied because they feared it would compromise the balance between free and slave states

The Compromise of 1850

sara_doyle1 — 2018-05-03 16:14:37 UTC

Henry Clay now a senator trudged through Washington to pay a call, Clays new compromise had something to please just about everyone. When admitting Cali. as a free state to please the North it allowed New Mexico and Utah to decide whether to allow slavery to please the South and to end slave trade in Washington, and finally pass a strong fugitive slave law

The Fugitive Slave Act

sara_doyle1 — 2018-05-03 16:25:04 UTC

Under this act a person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights and the people helping them could be jailed, this trying to force norther's to help slave catchers,many Norther's refused and it enraged slaveholders and made it almost impossible to enforce the act.

The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854

sara_doyle1 — 2018-05-03 16:32:22 UTC

It created 2 new territories Kansas and Nebraska, it abolished the Missouri Compromise by leaving it up the the states to chose to have or to not have slavery, Douglas called this popular sovereignty or rule by the people.

Bloodshed in Kansas

sara_doyle1 — 2018-05-03 16:37:06 UTC

Before long Kansas had 2 governments one for and one against slavery