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Abolition movement
The Abolition movement was from 1830-1839. The goal was to end slavery completly. -
Nullificatio Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification -
Frederick Douglass and the North star
Once Douglass escaped slavery he wanted to help others get freedom too. He published a newspaper in Rochester, New York, called The North Star. It got its name because slaves escaping at night followed the North Star in the sky to freedom. Douglass's goals were to abolish slavery in all its forms -
Compromise of 1850
A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides -
Kansas/Nebraska act and Popular Sovereignty
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slaves or not. -
Bleeding Kansas
A term used to describe the period of violence in Kansas from 1854-1858. -
Dredd Scott decision
Decision by the United States Supreme Court that ruled that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves, or their descendants, whether or not they were slaves, were not protected by the Constitution and could never be citizens of the United States. It also held that the United States Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories. -
The election of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell. -
South Carolina secession
South Carolina became the first Southern state to declare its secession and later formed the Confederacy. -
Formation of the confederate states of America
the government formed in 1861 by southern states that proclaimed their secession from the United States. Jefferson Davis was its president. The Confederacy was dissolved after the Civil War.
