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The American Colonization Society
A organization to free African Amercans to emigrate to Africa. Finey believed that African Amercans would never be fully intergated into America society and that they will only be fullfill their potiental as human beings in Africa the "Land of their fathers." -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the slavery and anti-slavery in the U.S Congress. -
The american Anti-Slavery Society
(1833–1870) was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass was a leader who often spoke at its meetings. -
The Liberty Party
The Liberty Party was a minor political party in the U.S in the 1840s. The party was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause. It broke away from the American Anti-Slavery Society. -
The Mexican-American War
The United Sates took Texas which Made Mexico not happy because it was their land. -
The Free Soil Party
The Free Soil Party was a short political party in the U.S started in the 1848. It was a third party and a single-issue party that largely appealed to and drew strength from New York. The party consisted of former anti-slavery members of the Whig Party and the Democratic Party. Its main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories, arguing that free men on free -
California Gold Rush
The Gold Rush was founded in January 24, 1848 when James Marshell found gold in California. This was most important events in California history. It brought people from all over the United States and the world in search for gold. -
The compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, upsetting the balance between the free and slave states. -
Uncle's Tom's Cabin
A novel that Harriet Beecher Stowe about African American Slaves going through hard labor. -
The Sumner Affair
When Sumner beats Brooks on the floor of the U.S. Senate with a cane.The fight sparked between the North and the South. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people in territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 -
The Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave, He was taken by his master from a slave state to the free state of Illinois and then to a free territory of Wisconsin. The army ordered his master to go back to Missouri, he took Dred Scott with him, but his master died in Missouri. A abolitionst laywer to sue for his freedom in court. The case went to the supreme court. -
The Lincoln-Douglas debates
The debates between Douglas and Lincoln were during the 1858 campaign for a US Senate from Illinois. The debates were held at 7 sites in Illinois, Douglas was elected in 1847, Lincoln was unknown but popular for his debates. -
The electon of 1860
By the election of 1860 profound divisions existed among americans over the future course of their country, and especially over the South's slavery. The campaign of 1860 accurately registered the country's precarious condition after a decade turmoil.
