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Nat Turner
Nat Turner led a slave rebellion against whites and killed at least 55 people. He was eventually caught and killed and this resulted in harsher restrictions on slaves -
The Liberator
"The Liberator" was an abolitionist newspaper that was started by William Lloyd Garrison."The Liberator" was very popular in the North and was a big part in starting the anti-slavery movement. -
Gag rule
The U.S. House of Representatives created a "gag rule", which prevented the House from discussing any anti-slavery issues. There was nothing any one of the Representatives could do about slavery because they were not allowed to discuss it. -
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Antebellum Slavery
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The Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War allowed the United States to gain more land that had previously been owned by Mexico. Southerners wanted this new land to be slave territory, while the Northerners wanted it to be free. This strengthened the tension between the two sides. -
The Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and helped several slaves escape also through The Underground Railroad. She risked her life several times by continuing to return South and freeing slaves -
Compromise of 1850
The Mexican-American war created a lot of controversy over what states would be free states and what states would be slave states. This compromise composed by Henry Clay said that California was a free state, but no federal restrictions on slavery in Utah or New Mexico would be implemented. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book showed the terrible things that slaves had do endure under their owners and changed many Northerner's view on slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska act called for popular sovereignty, and the decision on if Kansas would be a slave state came down to a vote. This led to "Bleeding Kansas" which was a lot of violent confrontations about the issue between the two sides. -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Dred Scott tried to claim that he was a free man because he lived in a free state. But Chief Justice Roger B. Taney said that blacks had no rights and were property if they were enslaved. He claimed that if a slave owner wanted to move his property, they could. -
Abraham Lincoln became President
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States . He had a plan to stop the expansion of slavery into the Western Territories. He also wanted to abolish slavery entirely. Him becoming elected led to most of the Southern states wanting to secede from the Union which caused the Civil War.
