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The Aboltion Movement
Was a movement to abolish slavery. -
Frederick Douglass and the North Star
Frederick Douglass founded the North Star a black abolitionist newspaper that helped runaway slaves reach the northern states and canada -
Nullification Crisis
California was added as a free state meaning that there was now and imbalance of free and slave states. The fugitive slave law was passed meaning that all runanway or free slaves must return to their masters. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular Sovereignty was passed so the people got to decide on whether the territory would be free or slave states. The Rebuplican Party formed an anti-slavery movement. -
Bleeding Kansas
Lasted from 1854-1856. The most brutal/bloody event of the Civil War. Fought between anti-slavery forced and pro-slavery forces. -
Dred Scott
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were strictly property and could never be U.S. citizens. After this decision slavery could be anywhere in the U.S. -
The election of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was a Republican canidate meaning he opposed slavery. Lincoln won with only 40% of the votes. After Lincoln won the election Southern states wanted to secede. -
Secession of South Carolina
South Carolina was the first to secede from the Union with many others following after. The states that were for slavery wanted to secede because they did not want to deal with slave labor practices. -
Formation of the Confederate States
Was an unrecognized confederation of secessionist American states from 1861 to 1865. Formed by seven slave states in the lower south region of the U.S.
