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a slave uprising that took place on September 9, 1739, in the British colony of South Carolina, near the Stono River, where a group of enslaved people, led by Jemmy, sought freedom by marching towards Spanish Florida -
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by enslaved preacher Nat Turner, resulting in the deaths of 55-65 white people and leading to a brutal crackdown on enslaved people and the passage of harsher slave laws. -
A series of laws designed to resolve the slavery issue of slavery in newly acquired territories from the Mexican-American War, including California's admission as a free state, a stronger Fugitive Slave Act, and the abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C. -
federal laws passed to capture and return runaway slaves they required that slaves that ran away had to be captured and returned to your owners even if they were in a free state -
Harriet Beecher Stowe tells the story of enslaved people, including Uncle Tom, a kind and religious man, and Eliza, who flees with her son, highlighting the cruelties of slavery and its impact on families -
Allowed residents of Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty. -
The Supreme Court ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and had no right to sue in federal court, and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories -
abolitionist John Brown and his followers raided the federal armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), aiming to initiate a slave revolt by capturing weapons and arming enslaved people. The raid, however, failed, resulting in several deaths and Brown's capture and execution -
Abraham Lincoln, an anti-slavery candidate, won the presidency, despite not being on the ballot in many Southern states.The national outcome of the 1860 election gave Lincoln a victory in both the popular vote and the electoral vote, with just under 40 percent of the popular vote, which totaled 1,866,452, and 180 electoral votes. -
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. They adopted a new constitution establishing a confederation government of "sovereign and independent states".