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The American colonization Society
The American Colonization Society was the people that supported freed African Americans going back to Africa. Paul Cuffee, a rich mixed-race shipowner was a big part in this society.In 1811 he financed and captained voyages to Sierra Leone. when they were there he heped the African Americans set up their lives. -
Missouri Comprise
The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress. The point was to regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
The American Antislavery Society
The American Anti-Slavery Society was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. The society promoted the idea of stopping slavery. Many people opposed this idea and there was often voilent out breaks over it. -
Liberty Party
The Liberty Party was a political party in the United States in the 1840s. The party was against slavery. It pushed the view that the Constitution was an anti-slavery document; -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was five bills that were intended to put a end to savery. Its goal was to deal with the spread of slavery to territories in order to keep northern and southern interests in balance. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso, one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. He banned slavery in any territory aquried from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future. -
Mexican-American War
The Mexican–American War aslo known as the First American Intervention. This was an armed war between the United States of America and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. This war was caused because Mexico considered Texas was part of its territory. Texas Revolution. -
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush on January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall found gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The gold rush brought around 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. -
The Free Soil Party
The Free Soil Party main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories. They opposed slavery in the new places and worked to remove existing laws that discriminated against freed African Americans. -
Uncle tom's cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This novel was against slavery, and helped start the Civil War. It was published in 1852. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. This made new lands for settlement. The main purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up many thousands of new farms and make Midwester railroads. -
Sumner-Brooks Affair
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The Dred Scott Decision
He was a black American slave in the United States who tired to sued Sandford for his freedom and the freedom of his wife and their two daughters. His case was based on the fact that although him and his wife were slaves, he had lived with his master Dr. John Emerson in states and territories where slavery was illegal according to both state laws. -
The Lincoln-Douglas debates
The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.The main issue discussed in all seven debates was slavery. -
The Election of 1860
The election on November 6, 1860 was a presidential election for the President of the United States. The United States was divided about slavery for years. This election caused the Democratic Party to break into the Northern and Southern factions, and a new Constitutional Union Party was created, causing the American Civil War.
