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states rghts
States’ Rights refers To the struggle between the federal government and individual states over political power -
The Missouri Compromise
aditional 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. -
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was the term used to describe a network of meeting plages, secret routes, passageways and safe houses used by slaves in the U.S. to escape slave holding states to northern states and Canada. -
Abolitionist Movement
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. -
fugitive slave act
a law enacted as a part of the Compromise of 1850,if slaves escaped they would be returned. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabins was published in serial form in an anti-slavery newspaper in 1851 and in book format in 1852. Within two years it was a nationwide and worldwide bestseller. -
dred scott decision
Dred Scott was a slave who sought citizenship through the American legal system. -
John Brown
John Brown was a radical abolitionist whose fervent hatred of slavery led him to seize the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry in October 1859. -
The Election Of Abraham Lincoln
Exacerbating tensions, the old Whig political party was dying. Many of its followers joined with members of the American Party and others who opposed slavery to form a new political entity in the 1850 the Republican Party. -
The Raid On Harper’s Ferry
Brown and a band of followers seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in what is believed to have been an attempt to arm a slave insurrection.
