Civilwar

Post-Civil War Activity

By aribo95
  • The Nullification Crisis

    The Nullification Crisis
    South Carolina threatens to secede from the U.S. after the passage of tariff. They saw it as a violation of state's rights.
  • Tha Abolition Movement

    Tha Abolition Movement
    This as a movement that intended on ending slavery by law. To put an end to racial discrimination and segregation.
  • Frederick Douglass and the North Star

    Frederick Douglass and the North Star
    Frederick Douglass, a former slave, became an abolitionist author and speaker. He established the abolitionist paper The North Star on December 3, 1847, in Rochester, NY, and developed it into the most influential black antislavery paper published during the antebellum era.
  • The Compromise of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850
    The Compromise of 1850 allowed California into the Union as a free state. In return, gives southerners the fugitive slave law. Which makes the process of aiding runaways more difficult.
  • THe Kansas/Nebraska act and Popular Sovereignty

    THe Kansas/Nebraska act and Popular Sovereignty
    This created the territories of Kansas and Nebrask, opening new lands for setlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820. By allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.
  • The Dredd Scott Decision

    The Dredd Scott Decision
    Supreme Court rules that slaves taken to free states. In March of 1857, Scott lost the decision as seven out of nine Justices on the Supreme Court declared no slave or descendant of a slave could be a U.S. citizen, or ever had been a U.S. citizen. As a non-citizen, the court stated, Scott had no rights and could not sue in a Federal Court and must remain a slave.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    Bleeding Kansas was a bitter war that pitted neighbor against neighbor. In 1859, a radical abolitionist from Kansas named John Brown raided the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Though the raid failed, it fueled the passions of nothern abolitionists who made him a martyr.
  • The Election of Abraham Lincoln

    The Election of Abraham Lincoln
    The Election of 1860 was the year the Abraham Linoln was elected as President. Leading the South to leave or secede from the U.S.
  • South Carolina Secession

    South Carolina Secession
    South Carolina was the first state to officially secede from the United States soon after the election. They were followed by six other Southern states. These states formed together a new nation which they named the Confederate States of America.
  • Formation of the Confederat States of America

    Formation of the Confederat States of America
    After Licoln became President, seven states seceded from the U.S.. Representatives from the seven seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to found the Confederate States of America.