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Sectionalism Timeline
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UNITED States of America
-Alabama admitted as slave state, bringing the number of slave states and free states to equal numbers. -
Missouri Compromise
-Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
-The compromise also prohibited slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30'N lat. (southern boundary of Missouri) -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
-about 60 white people killed
-Turner is executed -William Lloyld Harrison founds first abolitionist periodical, The Liberator, in Boston -
Congress Sucks
-Gag rule is passed by Congress to prevent abolitionist petitions from being considered -
L'Amistad
-Slaves aboard slave ship L’Amistad rebel
-Slaves are freed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1841 and returned to Africa -
Massachusetts
-Massachusetts passes law forbidding state officials from catching fugitive slaves
-Sojourner Truth begins delivering abolitionist speeches across the nation -
Church
-Methodist Church divides into northern and southern sections over the issue of slavery -
Compromise of 1850
-allows residents of New Mexico and Utah territories
to permit or ban slavery
-admits California as a free state
-ends the slavetrade (but not slavery) in the District of Columbia
-enacts a stricter fugitive slave law requiring citizens in free states to turn in runaway slaves -
Abolition and "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
-Written by William G. Allen in 1852-53
-The letter praises the abolitionist novel and points out how the novel led him to say that slavery is a national sin, the illustration shows the cruelty of slavery (as seen by northern abolitionists).
-The document seems to be moving towards conflict, but still shows compromise. The man tells how the novel showed the evils of slavery, which the north saw and the south did not.
-Cause: The wild popularity of the novel brought upon new thougts on slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
-Written by a Detroit journalist in 1854
-This article was written to show that the north proposed the compromise was something that worked for everyone and could be fully agreed upon.
-It shows a spirit of compromise, as the entire article speaks of how all section scan agree to new states declaring their own laws.
-Cause: Debates over the states ability to become free or slave and if they could decide that.
-Effect: Elections became rigged and weighted, many fights ensued, entered as free. -
Bleeding Kansas
-Intense local warfare erupts between pro- and anti-slavery settlers
-Walt Whitman anonymously publishes Leaves of Grass -
Dred Scott Case
-Written by Roger Taney in 1857
-The document was said by Judge Taney, during a case in which a slave wished to keep his freedom, but Taney ultimately ruled against him, showing much racism towards blacks.
-The document shows conflict between the white population and the slave and free blacks, as Taney ruled the case based almost entirely on race and bias towards the north.
-Cause: Racsim, Black Codes, corrupt government.
-Effect: Deeper North-South divide, key issue on the Republican platform -
Abraham Lincoln's Election
-Lincoln election shows compromise within the north, but shows conflict between the two sides of the nation, as the south had virtually no support for Lincoln, it was all concentrated in the north.
-Effect: Republican popularity, the Civil War?, Emancipation Proclamation. -
South Carolina
-S. Carolina is the first state to leave the United States
-By February 1 1861, 6 more states followed S. Carolina's steps and left the Union
