by Skyla Kelley

Missouri Compromise

skelley19 — 2015-02-25 15:54:05 UTC

The Missouri Compromise provided the balance between the slave states and the free states. The north got the free states, and the south got the slave states. It also brought to the Unites States the temporary, or brief lil in debate about slavery for the south.

Nathaniel Turner's Rebellion - 1831

skelley19 — 2015-02-25 16:32:32 UTC

This rebellion was a slave rebellion that was held in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. This was led by, Nat Turner, and the slaves that joined Turner in this rebellion killed 56 to 65 people. This led to the Civil War by killing people for slaves to be free.

Wilmot Proviso - 1846-1850

skelley19 — 2015-02-25 16:32:46 UTC

this was a major event leading to the civil war. It all started by the design of elimination of slavery. President James k. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million as a part of a bill negotiate the rearms of the treaty. Congressman David WIlmot proposed his amendment to the bill. Northern Democrats such as WIlmot, who feared the addition of slave territory, had resented Polk's willingness to compromise the Oregon dispute with Great Britain at the forty-ninth parallel-less territory than expected. More interests in northern free labor than in the plight of southern slaves, Wilmot had been an administrator loyalist until he presented his proviso.

compromise of 1850

skelley19 — 2015-02-25 16:33:13 UTC

With the help of president taylor, California wanted to become a free state in 1849. Other states that provided slavery wanted to be able to return fugitives, or runaway slaves, back to their owners, but the power remained to the senate. If California was entered to be a free state, the states that provided slavery would be completely outvoted in the senate. The southerners talked about seceding, or leaving, the Union because they wanted slavery to expanded instead of being shrinking. Henry Clay was on a search for a compromise in 1850. Later, Clay pushed for a strong fugitive slave law. Because President Taylor died out of the blue, the vise present Millard Fillmore seceded him and liked the idea of the compromise. Illinois senator, Stephen A. Douglas split Clays plan into different parts, so the parts could be voted on in those different parts. Congress passed the 5 bills that made the Compromise of 1850.

Fugitive slave act -1850

skelley19 — 2015-02-25 16:33:23 UTC

This acts was to try and attempt to pacify slaveholders. This act helped the slave owners catch the runaway slaves. The runaway slaves followed the path of the Underground railroad. The underground railroad was a network of free african americans, or white people that would help the slaves escape by letting them stay in their homes for a night or so, and then they would tell the slaves where to go, and then the people that helped the slaves escape would hide them in their wagons, and sometimes they would help them ship the slaves to the north.

the kansas - Nebraska Act - "Bleeding Kansas" - 1854

skelley19 — 2015-02-25 16:33:38 UTC

Stephen Douglas sponsored the controversial Kansas - Nebraska Act. The Missouri compromise allowed Popular sovereignty, which is allowing people to choose, and that let Nebraska and Kansas become free states. The Kansas - Nebraska Act was passed, because many northerners protested. Douglas thought that the Missouri Compromise would interfere with keeping the slavery legal. With the help of the Northern democrat helping back up president pierce, THe congress passed the Kansas Nebraska Act. The bleeding Kansas was about them getting to choose what state they can vote.

The Dred-Scott Case - 1857

skelley19 — 2015-02-26 19:33:57 UTC

Dred Scott was an african american that was brought by a doctor that was in the army to missouri, a slave state. Later he claimed that he should be free because he once lived in the north where slavery was not aloud. Few years later, the congress stated that they constitution supported slavery.

John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

skelley19 — 2015-02-26 19:56:08 UTC

he did a raid to fight slavery. John Brown and his men blocked and hid themselves to get ready and attack the federal troops. John brown hoped to use the weapons.

Lincoln's Election - 1860

skelley19 — 2015-02-26 19:56:50 UTC

Abraham Lincoln was wanting to run for president, and he was a very liked man. He stood up for what was right, such as banding slavery, and he was a very honest man. BUt sadly, his opponent, Douglas, won the election to the House in 1842. He was called the little giant. Later in Lincoln's life, he won the election in become president, and he band slavery.

Battle at Fort Sumter - 1861

skelley19 — 2015-02-26 19:57:13 UTC

The civil war began when Confederate forces attacked First Sumter in South Carolina.