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The Abolition Movement
History.com The movement attempted to achieve immediate emanicipation of all slaves and end racial segregation. This will cause a drift between the North ( anti slave) and the South (pro slave) -
Nulification Crisis
High tariffs upsetted South Carolina leading to the Nulification Ordinance in 1832 stating that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void and they threatened to seceed if forced to comply. This lead to the Force Bill and the Compromise Tariff. -
Frederick Douglas and the North Star
Frederick Douglas was a slave who fled to NYC to achieve his dream. He later published his own autobiography on " the life of Frederick Douglas" and three years later he published his first issue of the North Star which promoted freedom for all slaves. It got its name because slaves escaped at night and followed the North star to freedom. -
Compromise of 1850
This admitted California as a free state, allowed the popular vote to determine the fate of Utah and New Mexico on the question of slavery, it settled a boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico, and ended slave trade in Washington D.C -
Bleeding Kansas
An anti slavery vs pro slavery border war. -
Kansas/Nebraska
The act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing the people in those terrirories to decide whether they become a slave state or not. -
Dred Scott Decision
A trial that went on for years and finally ended with the conclusion the Dred Scott was a slave and not a free men because he was tecnically not a citizen. This claimed the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, ending slavery questions. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
A member of the Republican Party who vowed to keep America united and was anti-slavery. The 16th president of The United States -
Formation of The Confederate State Of America
6 Southern States followed after South Carolina seceeding from the United States and formed together. -
South Carolina Secesion
The first state to seceed from the United States after Lincoln was elected president. They felt that they were not going to be represented well, and 6 other sothern states followed forming the Confederate States Of America.
