Civil War Review

One part of the Compromise of 1850, this law stated that escaped slaves must be returned to masters even if they were in the North, and set harsh punishments for those assisting runaway slaves.

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• Fugitive Slave Act

Let the people decide by State, on whether slavery should be allowed in territories through voting.

• Popular Sovereignty

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He was a slave who was taken to free territory. He sued for his freedom and the Supreme Court declared that slaves are property, not people.

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• Dred Scott

First state to secede/leave the Union in 1860.

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• South Carolina

April 12th, 1861- Confederate soldiers firing on this fort initiated the Civil War.

• Fort Sumter

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Law passed that gave North and South part of what they wanted. California admitted as free state, slave trade abolished in DC, and new fugitive slave law passed; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas

• Compromise of 1850

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1854 Douglas: Created Nebraska (north) and Kansas (south) as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. North disliked the Act and Southerners loved it.

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• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Abolitionist involved in violence in Kansas. In 1859, he led a raid of a government arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, with the intention of arming slaves and starting a revolt.

• John Brown

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Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party in the South was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it had a voice in politics and a 11 states seceded from the Union.

• Election of 1860

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The author of the book Uncle Toms Cabin that persuaded people to want to end slavery.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

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