1. Missouri Compromise
1820
Maine would enter as a free state, Missouri would enter as a slave state:
It would exclude slavery from the Missouri Territory north of the parallel North except within the limits for the proposed state of Missouri.

2. Texas Annexation 1845 Ones step closer to Manifest Destiny.
Led us into the Mexican-American War over boundary disputes.
Mexico lost and gave us the
Mexican Cession which is the
rest of the south-western territory.
Which led to the questions about if slavery would be allowed in this area
1845

3. Compromise of
1850
Texas would relinquish the land in dispute for $10 mil.
NM,NV, AZ, and UT would be organized w/out mention of slavery.
Washington DC would end slave trade but slavery would still exist
California would enter as a free state- off set balance in congress
Fugitive Slave Act- North help South recover fugitive slaves
Texas would relinquish the land in dispute for $10 mil.
NM,NV, AZ, and UT would be organized w/out mention of slavery.
Washington DC would end slave trade but slavery would still exist
California would enter as a free state- off set balance in congress
Fugitive Slave Act- North help South recover fugitive slaves
Texas would relinquish the land in dispute for $10 mil.
NM,NV, AZ, and UT would be organized w/out mention of slavery.
Washington DC would end slave trade but slavery would still exist
California would enter as a free state- off set balance in congress
Fugitive Slave Act- North help South recover fugitive slaves

4. Fugitive Slave Act
Required citizens to assist in the recovery of fugitive slaves. It denied a fugitive’s right to a jury trial. The act called for changes in filing for a claim, making the process easier for slave owners.
Also, there would be more
federal officials responsible for enforcing the law.

5. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published in 1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Anti-Slavery Novel
Abolitionist :
People fighting to end slavery
Sectionalism is loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than the nation as a whole.

6. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created the territories of Kansas & Nebraska- allow settlers to decide about slavery
Repealed Missouri Compromise
Popular Sovereignty- settlers could vote to decide whether to allow slavery.

7. Dred Scott v. Standford 1857 Dred Scott Decision
He nor any person of African ancestry, could claim citizenship in the United States, and that therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules.
Also, could not deprive Scott’s owner of his property.
Dred Scott Decision

8. His election led to South Carolina to secede from the Union
Lincoln is
elected
16th President
I have no intent to invade Southern states, nor did I intend to end slavery where it existed, but that I will use force to
maintain possession of federal property.
His election led to South Carolina to secede from the Union

9. South Carolina
becomes 1st state
to secede
Supported individual states’ rights and the institution of slavery.

10. Confederate
States of
America
11 Southern States joined the Confederate side

11. Fort Sumter Attacked Started Civil War
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.