Let's Talk About The Elephant in The Room

In class we made a timeLine regarding pro slavery and anti slavery in the civil war. We seperated the pro and the anti. In order to figure out which event was pro or anti we had to read about them. Once we figured it out we wrote a brief description and for some we put a picture. The picture of the timeline is below...

In the early 19th century the main topic or the "elephant in the room" of American politics was slavery. Just because it was a predominant focus doesn't mean they wanted it to be. The government wanted to avoid it. Slavery was such a big topic because people were finally reliving it wasn't right and that things needed to change. The government wanted to ignore it because they had always relied on slates and didn't want tot give that up. This was very obvious during the Dred Scott Case in March of 1857. A black slave filed a lawsuit against Missouri stating that he and his wife should be freed because they used to live in states where slavery was illegal. The court ended up saying no they should not be free because thecnically they are slaves and slaves can't sue anyone. This discuted the antislavery activists.