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The Abolition Movement
The Abolition Movement was a movement to end slavery by law. The goal of this movement was to free all African-American slaves in Western Europe and the Americas. -
The Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis occured when Andrew Jackson was president and was created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. It declared by the power of the State that federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and would null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. -
Frederick Douglass and the North Star
Frederick Douglass was a slave who was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He created the abolitionist paper, The North Start, that was used to denounce slavery. It also fought for the emancipation of women and other oppressed groups. -
The Compromise of 1850
This was a package of five bills that was passed in the United States. The prupose of it was to defuse a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North. -
The Kansas/Nebraska Act and popular sovereignty
This act created Kansas and Nebraska to open more lands for settlement. It repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by letting white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Bleeding Kansas
This was a series of several violent political confrontations that were about anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery elements. This took place in the Kansas Territory and the towns next to the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. -
The Dred Scott decision
Dred Scott was a African American slave who was taken by his slave owner to other free states and territories. He tried so hard to sue so he could have his freedom. With that being said "The Dred Scott decision" allowed the Supreme Court to rule that slaves taken to free states and still the property of their slave owners. -
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
When Abraham Lincoln was elected president there was a good group of people that didn't really support this. It was mainly the South because they knew that with Abraham being president he would have a complete stop be put to slavery. -
South Carolina secession
South Carolina became the first Southern state to declare its secession and later formed the Confederacy. This allowed the South to break away from the United States. -
Formation of the Confederate States of America
This was a government that was set up by seven slave states. These slave states were of the Lower South that declared their secession from the United States. They created a "confederacy" before Lincoln took office in March.
