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The Missouri Compromise
Any states carved out the new territories the political power or slaveholding states would be diminished ,possibly to the point of slavery being outlawed everywhere within the united states.Pro-and antislavery groups rushed to populate the new territories. -
The Abolitionist Movement
The Abolitionist Movement was a , movement that was trying to end slavery throughout the north and south. -
The Abolitionist Movement
It was too say that all men were created and needed to be treated equal in the eyes of race and slaves and to end slavery for once and all in the united states of America. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was to catch the slaves that were either no free and needed to be catched or that they were free and were runners trying to run from there masters or being enslaved. -
Underground Railroad
So the Underground Railroad was made to help slaves and young slaves either who did not want too be enslaved of wanted to get to a free states with there young so they were not enslaved and having to work on the fields. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
People have looked at this book in a lot of different ways over the years. Some people think this book is good because it depicts how bad slavery is. Some people think the way women and blacks are portrayed in this book sucks. Some critics say the book has no constant narrator and no good writing. Some people think this is an example of "the great American novel." -
John Brown And Bleeding Kansas
Abolitionist in particular became famous –or infamous, depending on the point of view –for the battles that caused the deaths of pro-slavery settlers in Kansas. His name was John Brown .Ultimately .he left Kansas to carry his fight closer to the bosom of slavery. -
Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott was slave that was took to free terroirs by his slave master which made him free when he arrived in the free states so he was fighting and suing the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Dred Scott Vs. Sandford
So at this time Dred Scott was moving around from master to master after the doctor which was one of his masters Dred Scott new mster wanted to help him out to become free because he was in a free state. -
The Election of 1860
Many of its followers joined with members of the American Party (Know-Nothings) and others who opposed to orm a new political entity in the 1850s ,the Republican Party.When the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election ,Southern fears that Republican would abolish slavery reached a new peak. -
Southern Secession
The secession of Southern States led to the establishment of the Confederacy and ultimately the Civil War. It was the most serious secession movement in the United States and was defeated when the Union armies defeated the Confederate armies in the Civil War, 1861-65. -
Fort Sumter
Lincoln looks for volunteers to fight against the southern rebellion but Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee decided to oppose Lincoln saying he was exceeding his presidential authority and decided to vote for secession. Virginia split into two to disagreements on which army they should follow. -
The Raid On Harper's Ferry
John Brown's plan seemed fairly straightforward: he and his men would establish a base in the Blue Ridge Mountains from which they would assist runaway slaves and launch attacks on slaveholders. At least that was the plan that the militant abolitionist had described to potential funders in 1857. But his plans would change.
