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Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive slave act of 1850 was part of the compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The fugitive Slave Act drew more attention to the inhumanity of slavery and caused increased tention between the North snd the South. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defure the sectional and politial rivalries triggered by the request Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in wich slavery would be permitted. For years, the issue of slavery plagued the nation, causing problems between North and South. Though slavery was an issue the sanate was divided equally. The Missouri Compromise western territories parallel 36' 30' North slave where prohibited. In the South slaves continue to be allowed. -
Abolitionist Movement
Abolitionist was a historical movement to end the African and Indian slave trade and set slaves free. They claimed obedience to "higher law" over obedience to the constitution gurantee that a fugitive from one state would consider a fugitive in all states. -
Uncle Tom's cabin
Uncles Tom cabin novel was the worldwide bestseller. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel directly caused the civil war. Uncle Tom's cabin, by helping shape public opinion in 1850, was indeed a factor leading to the war. -
John Brown and Bleeding Kansas
John Brown was a white American abolitionsit who believed armed insurrections was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. Bleeding Kansas was a serious of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery, free-staters and pro-slavery. Bleeding Kansas argue nothing but slavery. These actions include death, kidnapping and burning buildings. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave. He sued the United States supreme court for his freedom. The court ruled that no person with African blood could become a U.S citizen. This enranged the abolitionist in the north. Dred Scott case was a major event on the road to the Civil War. -
The Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 precidential election, southern fears that the republicans would abolish slavery reached a new peak. Democrats actually wanted there party to lose. Lincoln was avowed opponent of the expansion of slavery but said he would not intefere with it where it existed. -
Southern Secession
To the surprise of other shoutherns states and even to many south carolinians the convention voted to dissolve the state's contract with the United States and strick off on its own. Even before the war was over, scholars in the North adn South began to analyze and interpret the reasons behind the bloodshed. -
Slavery in Ameirca
Slavery in America began iin the early 17th century and continued to be practice for the next 250 years by the colonies and states. Slavery brought a war in which the Northern and Western sttes and territories fought to preserve the Union and the South fought to establish the Southern independence as a new confederation of states under its own constiution.
