Antebellum- Danny Carroll

By dannyca
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    A bill of compromises that defused a political confrontation between the free and the slave states.
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Was an abolitionist and publicised her best-selling book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book highlighted the evils of the South and slavery. This angered the slaveholding South.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas

    After the creation of Kansas, there was a series of violent civil confrontations in the new Kansas territory because people didn't like the changes
  • Know Noting Party Nativist Movement

    Know Noting Party Nativist Movement

    The Know-Nothings are the United States' first anti-immigration party and launched a Nativist movement
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and created two new territories.
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision

    U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom.
  • Lincoln-Douglas debates

    Lincoln-Douglas debates

    Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in the fall of 1858 as they contested for a seat in the U.S. Senate
  • John Brown's Harpers Ferry

    John Brown's Harpers Ferry

    U.S. Millitary arsenal at Harpers Ferry was the target of an assault by abolitionist led by John Brown
  • Abraham Lincoln Wins election

    Abraham Lincoln Wins election

    Abraham Lincoln wins the election of 1860 over 3 other condidates
  • South Carolina Secedes from the Union

    South Carolina Secedes from the Union

    South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union