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Nat Turner: Slave Revolt
A freed-slave preacher name Nat Turner got a group of African Americans together and went from farm to farm in South-Hampton County, Virginia and murdered the white residents. 60 people were killed which consisted mostly of women and children because most of the men were away at a meeting. They were overpowered py military troops and executed not long after. This revolt struck fear into the hearts of all the white slave owners in the south, leading to harsher conditions and laws for slaves. -
Free Soil Party (Didn't have specific date)
It was a group formed to ban slavery in the new territory gained by the U.S. They opposed slavery because it destroyed the opportunities of white workers to start up. They were supporteres of the Wilmont Proviso and urged federal aid for internal improvements. It marked the start of the uprise of the Republican Party. -
Compromise of 1850
This was the passage of a number of bills in order to address the problem of the determination between free state and alve state. It resulted in admitting california as a free state, organized Utah and New Mexico without restrictions on slavery, it adjusted and set the border between Texas and New Mexico, abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and made fugitive slaw laws tougher and more harsh. It was created in the hopes that it would solve the threat of the division of a nation -
Fugitive Slave Law
Laws that were put in place by congress where it declared that any escaped slave must be returned to their owner. They were orginially used in 1793 but the North didn't really follow them. In 1850 the laws were more harsh to ensure that the North would obey the rules. Its goal was to undermine the underground railroad. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, this book was said to be a major cause of the Civil War. It described slave life in the south, told through the eyes of a slave man. It opened the eyes of northerners to the real horror of slavery and its conditions. -
Gadsden Purchase
After the U.S. had gained the land of New Mexico, California, and a few other states, they noticed they had left out a little part at the bottom of New Mexico and Arizona. They purchased the land from Mexico for 10 million dollars. They bought it in the hopes of constructing a southern continental railroad. Caused tension between the North and South because the territoy was wanted by all. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created in 1854, this act repealed or replaced the Missouri Compromise. It put in place a doctrine of congressional nonintervention in the territories. It was decided that popular sovereignty would decide whether Kansas and Nebraska would be free or slave states. -
Panic of 1857 (No official date)
Was started when the Ohio Life Insurance Company failed and led to the failure of more businesses in the urban East. The depression affected the industrial East and and the wheat belt. This resulted in the failure of America's economy. -
Freeport Doctrine
During the debates between Lincoln and Douglas, Douglas is asked by Lincoln to choose between popular sovereginty or the majority decision made by Congress on the Dred Scott case. Douglas replies by stating that Congress can't force any territory to become a slave state against its will. By replying as he did, in an indirect way, he sided with popular sovereignty. -
Harper's Ferry Raid
An abolitionist named John Brown seized the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry. His plan was to arm slaves with weapons so that they may rise up and kill their owners. No slaves showed up so he was captured and executed. -
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Lincoln's Assassination
John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. This led to him being replaced with Andrew Johnson. His assassination was planned by a group of southerners who wanted revenge on Lincoln. This made Lincoln a here but gave the southerners a bad rep. -
Black Codes Enacted (No Official Date)
The Black Codes were a set of laws that restricted the newly free African Americans. The South enforced these laws in the hopes to still be able to keep them to work for them. In a way, it was thier loop hole for after the Civil War. It was active throughout 1865 and 1866. They used annual labor contracts. They were deliberately disobeying the law. -
Thirteenth Amendment Ratified
This amendment was created to abolish slavery and invountary labor. This was the way the North could finally get the South to stop slavery in their region. In some ways though, the South found loop holes. -
KKK (No Official Date)
After the civil war, a group of white supremacists went around scaring african americans out of their right to vote. They would beat and kill republicans (black or white) to scare them out of voting. President Grant later got permission by Congress to us military force to separate the group. -
Tenure of Office Act
Thought up by Radical Republicans, it prohibited the president from removing civil officers with out the approval of the Senate. It was created to stop president Johnson from removing radicals from power. This led to his impeachment. -
Reconstruction Acts
Acts passed by Congress that consisted of dividing the South into 5 seperate military districts. Also passes laws and requirements that the South must follow in order to be able to rejoin the Union. One of which required them to allow voting right of African Americans. -
Fourteenth Amendment Adopted
This amendment was passed to allow ciizenship to the former slaves. It stated that any person born in the U.S. was a citizen and therefore prevents anyone denying life of them without due process. This was a major protector of civil rights. -
Election of 1876
Run between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tiden. Tilden won more popular votes, but Republicans didn't recognize the votes he had won in Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Oregon because they submitted two sets of popular votes. In the end this led to Hayes winning. -
Compromise of 1877
The contested results of the election of 1876 were given to the House of Representatives to determine a winner. Hayes promised democrats internal improvements in the south and emoving troops from that region. The democrats accepted the proposal and allowd Hayes to be the winner. -
Jim Crow Laws (No Specific Date)
Laws passed by the government to restrict the freedom of african americans. Created to oppress blacks and keep them working as sharecroppers and indentureed servants. Didn't allow them to do the same things as whites such as use the same bath room.
