Missouri Compromise, 1820

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Missouri Compromise, 1820
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More landmore issues over slavery
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Compromise of 1850
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Terms of the Compromise

• California admitted as a free state
• Ban on slave trade in Washington, DC
• Pay Texas 10 million to give up claims to New
  Mexico
• Have popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah
  territories
• Pass a tougher Fugitive Slave Actmade
  Northerners VERY angry

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Uncle Toms Cabin

• Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Made people even more aware of the horrors of
  slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act

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Kansas-Nebraska Actpopular sovereignty in those
areas
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Pottawatomie Massacrefive pro-slavery supporters
brutally murdered by John Brown
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Bleeding Kansasleads to Brooks beating Sumner
with a cane in Congress
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Dred Scott decision

• Dred Scott sues for his freedom when his master
  dies in a free territory
• Court says he cannot sue in court because he is
  property
• Slave owners cannot be denied their property
  under the 5th amendment

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Harpers Ferry, 1859John Brown tries to arm the
slaves is later executed
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Free Soil Party (and later the Republican
Party)slavery should not spread
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates in Illinois

• Stephen Douglas wins the election in Illinois,
  but loses the election for President to Lincoln
  in 1860
• Major issues were slavery and popular sovereignty

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1860after Lincoln is elected, states begin
leaving the Union