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United States federal legislation that stopped northern attempts to forever prohibit slavery's expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
A rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. -
A series of rules that forbade the raising, consideration, or discussion of slavery in the U.S.
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designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War 1846-1848
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An escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading enslaved people to freedom.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington D.C. was abolished.
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An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.
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Legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state. -
Series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln. -
An effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt.
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The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. -
outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854.