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Missouri Compromise
The Missourri Comprimise was an effort tby congress to defuse sectiona and political indifferences by allowng slavery to be permitted in 1819. Requesting Missouri to be a slave state would upset the equal balance between free and slave states. Missouri did end uo being a slave state while -
Abolitionist Movement
The Abolitionist movement in the US was the effort to end slavery in the nation that valued that freedom and "all men are equal." Over time the abolitionist became more jarring with their demands and the slaveowners became more firm. which feuled a large division regionaly that eventually led to the American Civil War. -
Nat Turner's Rebelion
A slave named Nat Turner enouraged an uprisng that went across to several Virginia Plantations. Turny and about 70 cohorts killed 60 white people.Turner and 55 slaves were tried and executed. Virginia lawmakers then reacted by ganting few civil rights lsaves and black people had at the time. Education wasnt allows and the right to assemble was very limitied. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was federal laws that gave the authortiy to capture slaves within the territory of the United States. The first Fugitive Slave Law gave the permission to local governments to take hold and return escaoed slaves and give conseequences to anyone who helped them. The fugitive slave act drew more attention of the inhumanity of slavery and increased tention form the South and North. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. the book explaines the harsh reality of slavery and created a huge tension between the North and the South. This novel generally regarded as one of the major cause of the civil war. She was also greeted by Abraham Lincoln as "the little lady who started a war" -
John Bown and bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas in the term used to describe the period of violence durring the settling of the Kansas Terrioty fro 1853-1861. a very crucial event that ked to the civil war. The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 allowed Kansas to decide whether It would be a free territoy ot slave territory, practicing sovereignty that caused bloody batteks to try to sway votes in Kansas territory -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave that seeked freedom through the American legal system. The decision made in 1857 made by the US Supreme Court in Dred Scott case was denied, basically saying no Negro could ever be a citizen. The decision also invaded the Missori Compromise in 1820. which had restrictions
on slavery in certain US teritories. The Dred Scott case contributed tot he election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 -
The election of 1860
The elcetion of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidental election and served as the immediate boost for the outbreak of the Civil War. -
Southern Secession
This event was the start of the confederacy and the civil war. It was the most serious secession movement in the U.S and it wa defeated when the union armies defeated confederate armies in the civil war.
