The Missouri Compromise, passed in 1820, admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
John Brown
history, statutes passed by Congress in 1793 and 1850 (and repealed in 1864) that provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory.
Dred Scott
. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
(May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist leader. First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism
.Dred Scott v. Sandford, was a decade-long fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man named Dred Scott case, also known as Dred ScottThe
Over 30 Million Storyboards Created
No Downloads, No Credit Card, and No Login Needed to Try!