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Vocabulary
Sectionalism:restriction of interests
Fugitive:a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding
Secede:withdraw leave the a federal union
Popular sovereignty : allow the people to decide
Border ruffians:pro-slavery activists
Martyr: killed because of their religious or other beliefs.
Secession: withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body
State’s rights: rights held by individual US states rather than by the federal government. -
Missouri Compromise
When this act was proposed people got angry by the request by Missouri in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avoid a devastating event between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the 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 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
“Bleeding Kansas”-Sacking of Lawrence
The Sacking of Lawrence happend on May 21, 1856, when pro-slavery activists, led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones, attacked Lawrence, Kansas, a town which had been founded by anti-slavery settlers from Massachusetts who were hoping to make Kansas a "free state". -
Dred Scott Decision
On this day in 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, confirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, thereby negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party. -
Lincoln vs Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry (John Brown)
Raid on Harpers Ferry (John Brown) was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln elected president. ... In 1860, Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell. -
Lincoln Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on Monday, March 4, 1861, as part of his taking of the oath of office for his first term as the sixteenth President of the United States. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War
