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Slavery
This had a fault for civil war because the figh lead to secession. The secession that brought war which the Northern and Western states and territories fought to preserve the union. The south fought to establish Souther independence as a new confederation under its own constitution. The South made Slaves atend its large plantation and -
Abolitonist Movement
It was the movement to end the slave trade and make there be no slaves in Western Europe and the Americas -
The Missouri Compromise
It was an Agreement in 1820 between Pro-slevery and Anti-Slavery fractions in the United States concerning the extensions of slavery into new territories. -
The Underground Railroad
It was the secret coopertive network that aided figurtive slaves in reaching sanctuary in the free states or in Canada in the years before abolition of slavery in the United States. -
The Dred Scott Desision
Dred Scott was a slave. He sought citizenship through the American Legal system. His case eventually went to the supreme court. -
States Rights
States rights was the rights and powers generally conceeded to the states, or all those powers claimed to the states under some interpretation of the constitution. -
The Election of Abraham Lincin
Lincoln was against slavery. and others who opposed slavery to form a new political entity in the 1850s, the Republican Party. When the Republican candidate Abraham Lincin won the 1859 presidential election, Southrn fears that the Republicans would abolish slavery reached a new peak. Lincoln was an a vowed opponent of the expansion of slavery but said he would not interfere with it where it existed. -
Sothern Session
The Sothern Session is the withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States, but it may refer to cleaving a state or territory to form a separate territory or new state, or to the severing of an area from a city or county within a state. -
Fort Sumner
On October 31, 1862 Congress authorized the creation of fort sumner. General James Henry Carleton initially justified the fort as offering protection to settlers in the Pecos River valley from the Mescalero Apaches, Kiowa, and Comanche.
