1. Tariffs
 North
supports taxes on imports
because they have businesses, and
they wanted people to buy their goods
instead of the ones from overseas.
 South hates the taxes because it
causes Great Britain to put a tariff on
cotton. THEY WANT TO SELL COTTON.
 South Carolina tried to nullify the tax
law, but that did not actually work.

2. Missouri Compromise
 Involves
Missouri and Maine
 Missouri came in as a slave state,
and Maine came in as a free state.
 39 parallel was the Missouri southern
border.
 Anything
above was free.
 Anything below was slave.

3. Compromise of 1850
 Involves
California
 California came in as a free state,
and the South received the Fugitive
Slave Law.
 Georgia Platform supported this
compromise, and anything that
would keep the Union together.

4. Kansas-Nebraska Act
 Involves
Kansas and Nebraska
 Each side could claim that the
territories could choose whether to
be slave or free
 “Bleeding Kansas” involved the fight
between proslavery and antislavery
forces who traveled to Kansas and
fought

5. Dred Scott Case
 Dred
Scott sued his master saying he
should be free because he lived in a
free state.
 The Supreme Court said he could not
sue because he was a slave.
 The North hated the decision and
rioted. The South liked the decision
because it settled the idea that slavery
would continue in the territories.

6. Missouri Compromise,
Compromise of 1850, KansasNebraska Act
 All
of these were compromises.
 The Kansas-Nebraska Act cancelled
out the other two.
 All of these laws were passed by
Congress.
 All of them had to do with deciding
what new states would be free and
what new states would be slave.

7. Nullification
 Worcester
v. Georgia was how
Cherokees could cancel out state law.
 Supreme Court said yes, Andrew
Jackson said no.
 South Carolina wanted to cancel out
tariffs.
 Andrew Jackson said no, we’ll attack
you, and then later, we’ll lower the tax.

8. Alexander Stephens
 Congressman,
Vice-President of the
Confederacy, Senator, Governor of
Georgia
 Opposed secession, supported slavery
 Created the Georgia Platform that
supported the Compromise of 1850

9. Election of 1860
 Abraham
Lincoln was elected.
 Lincoln wanted to stop the spread of
slavery.
 South was afraid he would stop slavery
all together.
 Southern states left one right after the
other.