EOTO Refelction

 Group 1

Missouri Compromise

The Louisiana Purchase had created a frenzy to move west 

1817- Missouri first applied for slave-hood

Half of the 22 states were free and half were slave states 

        Compromise that would admit Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state while also prohibiting slavery North of 36,30.

Kansas Nebraska Act

Bill proposed and designed to replace and repeal the Missouri Compromise line 

Bill proposed and designed by Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas 

Nebraska bill was passed 37-14 in the Senate and increased slavery in the US and its territories.

This expanded slavery in the territories and allowed them to decide on slavery 

Fugitive Slave Act Of 1850 

Bounties and reward systems were put into place

Made the government responsible for returning slaves

Bleeding Kansas 

Was a deadly outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

During Bleeding Kansas murder, mayhem, destruction, and psychological warfare became a code of conduct in Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri 

Dred Scott V. Stanford

Dred Scott was a slave who lived in both freed and slave states

Created a decision between the Northern and Southern states

The Election Of 1860

Abraham Lincoln won the election over popular vote

Group 2 

The Underground Railroad

Was made to help enslaved individuals escape to freedom

Ran through homes, roads, rivers, bays, etc.

Was helped by multiple people

Election of 1860

Was between Abraham Lincoln, John Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglass

American Anti-Slavery Society

Was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, Arthur Tappan, and Fredrick Douglas, this lasted from 1833 to 1870.

Fugitive Slave Act

Also known as the Fugitive Slave Law

Passed on Sept. 18th, 1850 

Part of the Compromise of 1850

Officials who did not arrest slaves who ran away were fined $1,000

Revoked June 1864