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Underground Railroad (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html)
The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many individuals -- many whites but predominently black -- who knew only of the local efforts to aid fugitives and not of the overall operation. Still, it effectively moved hundreds of slaves northward each year -- according to one estimate, the South lost 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850. -
The Cotton Gin (Eli Whitney)
In the south, before the cotton gin was invented, slaves would have to manually separate the seed from the actual cotton. Thanks to Eli Whitney's invention made & patented in the year 1794. Improving the reap-rate of cotton from 1-3 million a day to over 12 million units of cotton a day! -
The Missouri Compromise (https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Missouri.html)
During this point in time, tensions between the north &south in America when it came to slavery were very high. It was important to the north to rid America of slavery within the foreseeable future. The south simply wanted the opposite, due to their absolute dependence on slavery and the cotton crop. When Missouri first formed as a state, James Monroe-A skilled diplomat of the time-negotiated this seperation of Missouri -
The Liberator Is Published (http://www.accessible-archives.com/collections/the-liberator/)
In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison published his first edition of the new newspaper, "The Liberator." The Liberator appeared with the motto "Our country is the word-ourcountrymen are mankind" -
Nat Turner's Rebellion (http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner)
Nathanial “Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was a black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. history. Spreading terror throughout the white South, his action set off a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves and stiffened proslavery, antiabolitionist convictions that persisted in that region until the American Civil War (1861–65). -
Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
In November 1832 the Nullification Convention met. The convention declared that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina after February 1, 1833. They said that attempts to use force to collect the taxes would lead to the state's secession. -
Wilmot Proviso (http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/polk/aa_polk_wilmot_1.html)
In 1850, James Polk's desire for western expansion led to tensions between the north and south in relation to slavery and the allowing of it in the new territories. -
The Compromise of 1850
On January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South, Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions. The main factor of the Compromise of 1850 made to relieve tensions was the Fugitive Slave Act, which was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown, a free man with an upbringing which did not support slavery, endeavored frequently to raid and pillage any establishment that practiced slavery. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin)
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery elements in Kansas. At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would allow or outlaw slavery, and thus enter the Union as a slave state or a free state. The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 called for popular sovereignty; the decision about slavery was to be made by the settlers (rather than outsiders). -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act also was meant to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
Brooks-Sumner Event
The Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate when Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist, with a walking cane in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized slavehiolders including one of Brooks own relatives. -
Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott decision legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled that a slave named Dred Scott who had resided in a free state and territory and was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. The decision added fuel to the sectional controversy and pushed the country closer to civil war. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois General Assembly. Although Illinois was a free state, the main issue discussed in all seven debates was slavery in the United States. -
The Secession of The Southern States (http://www.ushistory.org/us/32e.asp)
All of the events that were constraining and restricting the south due to the north's legislation caused the southern states to want to secede from the union -
Election of 1860
This election was significant to the political issue of slavery during this time period, as the opposing candidates (Lincoln, Bell, Breckinridge, & Douglas) main topic was consistently slavery and whether or not it should be allowed. Lincoln won and therefore the antislavery arguement won as well. -
Fort Sumter is Fired Upon (https://www.civilwar.org/learn/civil-war/battles/fort-sumter)
The talks failed to resolve the tensions between the north and south unfortunately, forcing Beauregard to action. Early in the morning of April 12, 1861, Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on Fort Sumter. At 2:30pm on April 13th, Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was removed from the fort.
