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State Rights
Every time a state was formed the government decided whether that state was a slave state or a free sate. -
Underground railroad
The underground railroad was started on December 12,1790. it helped 300,000 slaves escape slavery. and Harriet Tubman was one of the people who went into enemy territory. -
Abolitionist Movement
Is the movement that helped abolish slavery. It also helped women get equal rights to men. -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
Slave rights activist, John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia ( West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. -
The Missouri Compromise
On March 3, 1820, Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase -
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, Southern fears that the Republicans would abolish slavery reached a new peak. -
The Southern Secession
On December 20,1860 South Carolina was the first to secede and it was followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. -
colonel Robert E. Lee
Federal Commander Winfield Scott, the hero of the Niagara in the war of 1812 promotes Robert E.Lee to Colonel.Scott was a hero in the Mexican-American and the Indian Wars also. But he is old and sick. Scott is 74 years in 1861.
