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A network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
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After the war, Mexico's government had no choice with the United States terms.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
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Part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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Goal to oppose the spread of slavery in the territories, which threatened the South.
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Fighting between pro-slavery and antislavery groups in Kansas.
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Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner with a cane. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was an avowed Abolitionist and leader of the Republican Party. After the sack of Lawrence, on May 21, 1856, he gave a bitter speech in the Senate called "The Crime Against Kansas."
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A financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy.
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Contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War. Was never passed.
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the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. Congress lacks the power to abolish slavery.
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A series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. Douglass won but Lincoln became more well known to Republicans.
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An effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell by a landslide.
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Popular and unpopular books brought emotions to many different people all over.
