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Abolition Movement
The abolition Movement was attempt to abolish slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom and believed "all men are created equal." Over time, abolitionists grew more strident in their demands, and slave owners entrenched in response, fueling regional divisiveness that ultimately led to the American Civil War. -
Nullification Crisis
This was a difficult time for President Jackson. This was when people could basically nullify laws. Meaning, if they didn't wanna follow them, they could just nullify that specific law. And most did it torwards the taxes. Nobody wanted to pay taxes, so they just nullified the law. -
Fredrick Douglas and the North Star
Fredrick Douglas was a man who didn't belive in slavery what so ever. He wanted slavery abolsihed comletely. He established the abolitionist paper The North Star on December 3, 1847, in Rochester, NY, and developed it into the most influential black antislavery paper published during the antebellum era. It was used to not only denounce slavery, but to fight for the emancipation of women and other oppressed groups.. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of bills that wanted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). There were 5 laws which balanced the interests of the slave states of the South of Missouri and the free states to the north. California was admitted as a free state; Texas received financial compensation for relinquishing claim to lands west of the Rio Grande in what is now New Mexico; the territory of New Mexico (including present-day. -
Kansas/Nebraska Act and Popular Sovereignty
This was a time when the government just left it up to the people to make their own decisions. (States Rights.) -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent conferentations involving anti slavery free-staters and pro slavery elements that took place in the kansas territory and the neighbouring towns of missouri between 1854 and 1861. -
The Dred Scott Decision
A landmark decision b y the us supreme court that made two main rulings. The first was that african americans were not citizens and therefor had no standing to sue in a federal court. second, was the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in any territory aquired after the creation of the us. -
The election of Abraham Lincoln
Lincolns election marked the beginning of the Civil War. -
Formation of the Confederate States of America
A government set up by 6 of the 7 southern slave states that had declared their secession from the us. -
South Carolina Secession
The South Carolina Secession was when South Carolina became the first southern state to declare its secession. The first shots of the civil war were fired in south carolina.
