Timeline
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
- March, 1820
- Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
- prohibited slavery north of the 36° 30´ latitude line
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TARIFF OF ABOMINATIONS
- April 22, 1828
- protect New England manufacturing interests & western agricultural products from competition
- the resulting tax on foreign goods severely devalued southern cotton exports
- South Carolina was the only state to invoke nullification but eventually accepted a compromise tariff
- The constitutional crisis was only temporarily averted, tensions remained between the states.
SLAVES
- 1830
- virtually non-existent in northern states
- 54% in South Carolina
- 51% in Louisiana
- Census of 1830
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REBELLION
- 1831, August
- Nat turner
- Southampton county, virginia
- 60 whites killed
- Turner hanged
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TARIFF ACT
- 1832
- Reduces duties
- South threatens secession
- Tariff act of 1832
THE COMPROMISE TARIFF
- 1833
- Reduces tariff of south
HOUSE
- 1836
- Passes resolution without looking at it
- Postponed action on slavery
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SLAVERY
- 1850
- Slave nonexistent in north
- 58 percent in S.C.
- 51 percent in Mississippi
Photo by Leo Reynolds
UNCLE TOMS CABIN
- 1852
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Shows reality of slavery
- Part of proslavery movement
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KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
- 1854
- Overturns Missouri compromise
BROOKS VS. SUMNER
- Brook beats sumner with cane
- May 1856
TARIFF
- 1857
- Rates 20 percent
- Unpopular in north
- Praised in south
DRED SCOTT
- Blacks not u.s. Citizens
- 1857
JOHN BROWN
- Raids Harper ferry, virginia
- October 1859
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- Elected president
- November 1860
- 40% of the popular vote and won 59% of the Electoral votes
- 1860
FT. SUMNER
- December 1860
- Shots fired
- South shoots first
