1. Effects / Significance
Event
Position of the North
Position of the South
Effects / Significance
Key Figures
Tariff Disputes Compromise Tariff of 1833
Nullification Crisis
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Pg 460 Pg
Banned slavery north of line except for MO
Henry Clay
State’s Rights
Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Wilmot Proviso 1846
Compromise of 1850
Banned slave trade in Washington
California Admitted as free state
New Mexico and Utah vote on slavery
-Fugitive slave law
Consisted of 5 parts:
Andrew Jackson
John C Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Nullification Crisis. National gov would not let the south nullify the act.
South Carolina threatened to secede.
wanted high tariffs to protect manufacturing against foreign markets.
wanted low tariffs
Agreed only because Maine was admitted as a free state
Agreed because Missouri was admitted as a slave state.
National govt. should have more power
for State Sovereignty State govt. should have more power
State sovereignty proved to be weak in the South during the war because it limited authority of the central government
Believed slavery should be allowed in any territory
Called for a law to ban slavery in any territories won from Mexico.
Feared that the South would extend slavery into the West
David Wilmot, a member of Congress from Pennsylvania

2. Effects / Significance
Event
Position of the North
Position of the South
Effects / Significance
Key Figures
Fugitive Slave Law, 1850
Pg. 465
Abolitionists
Slave owners
John Brown’s Raid
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Pg 466 and 467
Kansas- Nebraska Act 1854 “
John Brown
Border Ruffians
Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves. People who let them escape would be fined $1,000
Led a raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA arsenal. Wanted to help slaves escape by giving them guns to attack their owners. Failed attempt. South realized that the north will go through lengths to stop slavery, so they began putting together an army
Saw Brown as a hero and martyr
John Brown
Robert E Lee
J.E.B. Stuart
Viewed as terrorist act
Abolitionist who wrote a book that depicted the harsh treatment of slavery. Opened the eyes of many, and became a political issue
Bleeding Kansas” many proslavery settlers and anti-slave settlers began to attack and kill each other. Mini- Civil War
Outraged because the Missouri compromise already banned slavery north of the line
They were sure slave owners would move their slaves to Kansas to vote for slavery.

3. Effects / Significance
Event
Position of the North
Position of the South
Effects / Significance
Key Figures
Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857
Pg 471
Pg. 471
Enslaved- Dred Scott
Election of 1860
478 -
Ft Sumter
April 11, 1861
Pg 481
Supreme court ruled “slaves are property, not people”
Further divided the north and south.
Scott’s Lawyers argued that, because Scott had lived in a free territory, he had become a free man
Rejoiced and were happy because slavery was legal in all territories.
South Carolina seceded from the Union December 1860.
Supported the election, they wanted to abolish slavery and preserve the Union
Furious because they thought he would abolish slavery and that the south would not have any rights.
Lincoln
-Southern -Democrats
South Carolina
1st shots of Civil War initiated by the Confederacy. Lincoln did not want Union to fire unless fired upon. Union ran out of supplies surrendered Fort
Lincoln and Union Major Robert Anderson
Confederate Troops
Believed Fort
belonged to the Federal government
Could not leave the fort in Union Hands
Demanded the union surrendered