PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Northwest Ordinance1787
The land north of the Ohio River was eager to be bought by investors. Congress passed the NorthWest Ordinance to guarantee basic rights for settlers and to ban slavery there. This was seen as a cause of the civil war because the south favored slavery, and the land was also in the north.
Missouri Compromise 1820
The Missouri Compromise permitted Maine to be admitted as a free state and for Missouri to be a slave state. The Compromise also made it so the Louisiana Territory north of the southern border of Missouri would not have slavery. Another thing the compromise did was give southern slave owners the right to pursue escaped fugitives and return them back to slavery. This lead to tension because they were trying to end the spread of slavery, and the south was in full approval of slavery.
Texas Annexation February 1845
Mexican American War May 1845
Wilmot Proviso
August 1846
Free Soil Party is Founded
Summer of 1848
Compromise of 1850–
September 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
September 1850
Republican Party is Founded 1854
Election of 1860- November 1860
South Carolina Seceded from the Union–
December 20, 1860
