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Fugitive slave act
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 compelled all citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves and denied enslaved people the right to a jury trial. -
Uncle tom's cabin
The act Stowed abolitionist family and the Fugitive Slave Act, which forced Northerners to return escaped slaves. -
Charles sumner was attacked by preston
The act has been considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" and willingness to resort to violence that eventually led to the Civil War. -
Pottamatomie Massacre
Brown and his sons attacked three cabins along Pottawatomie Creek. They killed five men with broad swords and triggered a summer of guerrilla warfare in the troubled territory. -
Dred Scott Decision
The act outraged abolitionists, who saw the Supreme Court's ruling as a way to stop debate about slavery in the territories -
Lecompton Constitution Rejected
When the Kansas- Nebraska act passed Kansas was allowed to determining whether they would enter the union as a free or slave . The lecompton Constitution was created allowing for kansas to be a slave state. pro slavery people supported by president James Buchanan attempted to push the constitution through the US It was set back to kansas for a vote, vote rejected it -
John Brown Raided Harper's Ferry
John Brown radical abolitionist who had been involved in anti- slavery violence in kansas, on october 16. He led a group of seventeen including 5 black members to go raid the arsenal located in harpers goal. His goal was to start a slave up rising. Brown and his men were surrounded and eventually killed or captured by troops which washed by colonel Robert E. Lee. -
Confederate states of America formed
Was an unrecognized state set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S. -
The South Secedes
When Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president, the South Carolina legislature perceived a threat. Calling a state convention, the delegates voted to remove the state of South Carolina from the union known as the United States of America.