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Frederick Douglass and the North Star
After he escaped he wanted to promote freedom to all slaves. He wrote a newspaper called North Star he named it this because the slaves that would excape at night would follow the North Star. -
The Abolition Movement
(No exact day, but correct year)
Effort made by many individuals to end slavery in the United States. It was a movement to end the African and Indian slave trade and to set slaves free. -
The Nullification Crisis
A sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Declared by the power of the State itself, that the federal Tariff of 1828 and the federal Tariff of 1832 were unconstitutional. Was enacted into law during the presidency of John Quincy Adams. -
The Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions. He did this to compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. -
The Kansas/Nebraska Act and popular sovereignty
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Designed for the use of lessons. Stephen A. Douglas's speech on the "Nebraska Territory", Abraham Lincoln's speech on "The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise." -
Bleeding Kansas
Was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States. This involved anti-slavery, and pro slavery. -
The Dred Scott decision
Was a landmark decision by the U.S supreme court. Which staed the ancestors of a "negro" were imported to the US and sold as slaves. -
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
Elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party. He was a Kentucky-born lawyer and former Whig representative to Congress. -
South Carolina secession
It was a major political and military importance for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. A threat was made that would make the Congressional compromise to not pacify. -
Formation of the Confederate States of America
epresentatives of states announced the formation of the Confederate States of America. These states were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
