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Cotton Kingdom (Economic)
Cotton developed into a huge agricultural factory. Planters bought more slaves and land to grow more cotton to keep up with this economic drastic change. Cotton accounted for half the vaue of all American exports after 1840 and it was a powerful monarch. -
Uprising Rebellions (Social)
Nat Turner was a visionary black preacher who led a rebellion that slaughtered about sixty Virginians. -
Radical Abolitionism (Social)
The American Anti-Slavery society was founded and Many black abolitionists became living monuments for the cause of African American freedom, one of those being Frederick Douglass. . -
The Souths attack on abolitionism (Political)
The uprising rebellions put fear in white southern minds, forcing them to be more forceful on slavery. In 1835 southerners forcefully demanded antislavery appeals to end by looting the post office in Charleston, South Carolina. -
Abolitionist Impact in the North (Political)
The south became to be the land of the unfree and full of hatred. Growing number of Northerners, including Lincoln opposed extending slavery to the western territories. -
Free-Soilers Party (Political)
Free-Soilers opposed the expansion of slavery into the Western territories, arguing that free men should not compete with slave labor and should be granted the chance to own property. -
Fugitive-State law (Economic)
It was estimated that the South in 1850 was losing about 1,000 runaways a year, so Southerners demanded stricter fugitive-slave laws. White Americans who helped slaves escaped were sentenced to jail or had heavy fines. -
Democratic Convention (Political)
The votes between the Northern Whigs and Southern Whigs were divided. The Whigs ended the national political arguments and gave rise to sectional political alignments. -
Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Scheme (Economic)
Stephen Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which would allow slavery in Kansas and Nebraska to be decided by popular sovereignty. The problem was that the Missouri Compromise banned any slavery North of the 36'30 line. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act (Political)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act went against the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Northerners ended the fugitive slave law and Southerners became angry, eventually the Democratic Party was split into two. -
Kansas Territory (Social)
A gang of pro slavery raiders shot up and burned pat of the free-Soil town of Lawrence. The Kansas Territory erupted in violence in 1856 between the pro slavery and antislavery factions.n -
Lecompton Constitution (Political)
President Buchanan divided the powerful Democratic Party by enraging some Democrats of the North. He divided the only remaining national party and with it, the Union. -
The Dred Scott Case (Political)
The Dred Scott decision was handed down by the Supreme Court, who said that no slave could be a citizen of the U.S. The case inflamed millions of abolitionists against slavery and even those who didn’t care much about it, and more tension built. -
Failure to Compromise (Social)
Lincoln opposed the compromise because his party had preached against the extension of slavery -
Secession and Division (Social)
South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded when Lincoln was elected president and met in Montgomery, Alabama and created the Confederate States of America. The division came from fear of their rights as a slave-holding minority would be overruled.
