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Missouri Compromise
The compromise that made Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state. -
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
A slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia that was lead by Nat Turner. -
Compromise of 1850
A series of resolutions by Senator Henry Clay to compromise with the North and South. -
Fugitive Slave Act
A law passed by the United States in part of the "Compromise of 1850" between Southern slave holding interests and Northern free soilers. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
It is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
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"Bleeding Kansas"
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border Was was a series of of violent civil confrontations in the United States. Which became because of political and ideological debate over legality of slavery. It had a lot of assaults, and retributive murders carried out by pro-slavery "Border Ruffians" and anti-slavery "Free-Staters" in Kansas and neighboring Missouri. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed people living on the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery. -
Brooks Attacks Sumner
A attack that took place when Representative Preston Brooks used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, when he gave a speech two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders, including a relative of Brooks. The beating nearly killed Sumner and it drew a sharply polarized response from the American public on the subject of the expansion of slavery in the United States. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
The Raid on Harpers Ferry
It was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
The Republican Party, which fielded its first candidate in 1856, was opposed to the expansion of slavery. Abraham Lincoln, the party's nominee in 1860, was seen as a moderate on slavery, but Southerners feared that his election would lead to its demise, and vowed to leave the Union if he was elected. -
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American Civil War
A war fought in the United States by the North and the South or the Union and the Confederacy because the Confederacy felt that slaves were states rights and wanted the Union to see that but the Union didn't therefore the Confederacy fighting to be civil but obviously failing. -
Abraham Lincoln's assassination
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning.