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Abolitionist Movement
By the early 1830s, those who wished to see that institution abolished within the United States were becoming more strident and influential. They claimed obedience to "higher law" over obedience to the Constitution’s guarantee that a fugitive from one state would be considered a fugitive in all states. -
The Missouri Compromise
Additional territories gained from the U.S.–Mexican War of 1846–1848 heightened the slavery debate. Abolitionists fought to have slavery declared illegal in those territories, as the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 had done in the territory that became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. -
The Underground Railroad
The date was never really established but I went with the most escapes in one day and it was in the 1850's. Over 2000 slaves escaped in one day. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The book that practically started the Civil War. Listing facts on how slaves where really treated and set people in the North on FIRE. -
Election of Lincoln
The election of 1860 is when Lincoln won presidency. Lincoln did not recieve popular vote, but still won. He had support from the North and the South. -
Southern Seceession
When the South seceeded from the United States. -
Attack of Fort Sumter
Confederate soliders open fire at the fort demanding surrender for the new supplies that they knew where coming from Fort Garritson in Charleston, South Carolina -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska act established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and gave the people the right to vote for if they wanted the state as a slave state or as a free state. -
The Dread Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave who sought citizenship through the American legal system, and whose case eventually ended up in the Supreme Court. The famous Dred Scott Decision in 1857 denied his request stating that no person with African blood could become a U.S. citizen. Besides denying citizenship for African-Americans, it also overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820. -
John Brown
John Brown an Abolitionist raided on Harpers Ferry but failed thinking that all the slaves would join him but that was a failed attempted an he was hanged for his crimes.
