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The Abolition Movement
This was a movement to end slavery by law. This was important because it showed the support of non-slavery. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was when South Carolina threatened to secede from the United Sates because of the tariff seen as a violation to the states rights. This was important because it shows how unhappy S. Carolina is and what is to come in the future. -
Compromise of 1850
This compromise allowed California into the union as a free state and in return, the southerners got the fugitive slave law, making it harder to help runaway slaves. -
The Kansas/Nebraska Act and Popular Sovereignty
The kansas/nebraska act was a bill that divided the land west of Missouri into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska. The senator argued for popular sovereignty, which would allow the settlers of the new territories to decide if slavery would be legal there. -
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas Territory became a place for guerrilla warfare as the debate over the expansion of slavery led to violence in Kansas. -
The Dred Scott Decision
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves taken into free states are still the property of their slave owners and since Dred Scott was black, he was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue. This was a huge turning point, about the fact how slaves had no rights and couldnt even sue. -
Frederick Douglass and the North Star
Frederick Douglass was a former slave, that turned into an aboltionist author and speaker.The North Star was an anti-slavery newspaper that he wrote for. He was a very important man, who spoke out for slaves rights everywhere. -
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was elected president without support from any southern states. Talk of succesion among the South became more real. -
South Carolina Secession
South Carolina left the Union, followed by many more Southern states. This split up the thirteen colonies, into the Union and Confederacy. -
Formation of the Confederate States of America
All the states that seceeded formed their own country, the Confederate States of America. This started conflict between them and the Union which turned into the Civil War.
