The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive slave Act, Personal liberty laws, Kansas-Nebraska Act were the acts that effected slavery in the US.
Sectional economic and cultural differences, Debates over expansion of slavery into new territories, Political compromises failed to calm sectional differences and decide on expansion of slavery and the growth of antislavery is what led to the outbreak of the civil war.
Wilmot Proviso was a law that banned slavery from all the land gained from Mexico.
Secede means to break away.
Compromise of 1850 allowed California to be a free state and enacted a stricter fugitive slave law.
Personal liberty laws were laws that granted rights to escaped slaves and free black people.
Kansas-Nebraska act made the Kansas and Nebraska states and allowed each state to decide on slavery for their own state.
Know Nothings was a political party in america that opposed immigration.
Republican Party is a political party that was formed around an antislavery platform.
Fort Sumter is where the civil war held it's first battle.
John Brown was a abolitionist that move from place to place to fight slavery.
Harriet Tubman led hundreds of slaves through the underground railroad.
Harriet Beecher published and wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Stephen A Douglas was Abraham Lincoln's rival in the presidential election of 1860.
Dred Scott sued his master for freedom. His master took him to the north where slavery was outlawed and Dred Scott used that opportunity to gain his freedom.
Roger Taney was the judge for Dred Scotts case.
Abraham Lincoln was the the sixteenth president of the United States.
Jefferson Davis was the leader of the Confederate states during the civil war.
Connection to today
This chapter is similar to today's world because some country's divide themselves and have civil wars.
Dred Scott sued his master for freedom. His master took him to the north where slavery was outlawed and Dred Scott used that opportunity to gain his freedom.
Roger Taney was the judge for Dred Scotts case.
Abraham Lincoln was the the sixteenth president of the United States.
Jefferson Davis was the leader of the Confederate states during the civil war.
Connection to today
This chapter is similar to today's world because some country's divide themselves and have civil wars.
