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The Underground Railroad
Slave routesThe underground rail road was a network of secret routes salves took to escape to free states. the underground railroad was not a railroad or underground it was just a series of safe houses used to haid slaves while running away. the owners of these homes were sympatic to the cause. estimate, 100,000 slaves escaped from bondage in the South the railroad lasted till 1850. -
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney invented the cotten gin and created a new way of getting the cotten faster and easyier this caused more slavery becuase of the amount of cotten being made. -
The Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
In 1828, Congress passed a high protective tariff that infuriated the southern states because they felt it only benefited the industrialized north. In 1832 there was another tariff pushed through congress by Henry Clay with lower rates than the Tariff of Abominations, but still too high for the southerners.The SOUTH CAROLINA ORDINANCE OF NULLIFICATION was enacted into law on November 24, 1832. -
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Dred Scott
The most infamous case in its history, the court decided that all people of African ancestry slaves as well as those who were free could never become citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court. The court also ruled that the federal government did not have the power to prohibit slavery in its territories. Scott, needless to say, remained a slave. The decision of the court was read in March of 1857 restricted slavery in certain territories is uncontittional. -
compromise of 1850
compomise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. -
Election of 1860
This was the 19th quadrennial presidential election.The four candidates were Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas. Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.
