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Nat Turner 1831
Nat Turner was slave who led a rebellion made up of on August 21, 1831. He massacred 200 people and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people. -
Nullification Crisis
On Nov. 24, 1832, a state convention adopted the Ordinance of Nullification, which decided that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and were to not be enforced in South Carolina after Feb. 1, 1833. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott v. Sandford, was a decade-long fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man named Dred Scott. The case made it through several courts and finally reached the U.S. Supreme Court. It was denied because he wasn't a citizen. Basically having the same rights as a stool. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made the hunting down of escaped slaves, even in free states, fully legal. To abolitionists, this represented a huge blow to their efforts. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
After losing her child, Harriet Beecher Stowe attended a slave auction. After witnessing a mother and child being ripped away from each other she felt inspired to write the book Uncle Toms Cabin. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act got rid of the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising as proslavery and antislavery activists moved into the territories to sway the vote. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was the result of the K-N Act which lasted for about 4 years(1854-1859). It was a bloody massacre between 2 sides. The proslavery and the antislavery. -
brooks-sumner incident
Brooks decided he was gonna get his get back, and unsuspectingly beat Sumner with his cane -
John Browns Raid
Brown intended to provoke a general uprising of African Americans that would lead to a war against slavery. The raiders seized the federal buildings and cut the telegraph wires.it electrified the South—already fearful of slave rebellions—and convinced slaveholders that abolitionists would stop at nothing to eradicate slavery. -
The election of 1860
The election of 1860 molded the future of the U.S. by marking the end of slavery and a time of unprecedented violence in the nation.