Before the civil war

  • Nullification Crisis

    Andrew Jackson signed into law,and therewere many problems caused between North Carolina and the Federal Government.
  • Frederick Douglas & the north star

    Frederick Douglas escaped from slavery by following the North star and wanted to help others do the same thing.
  • Compromise of 1850

    5 different bills passed, in order to keep an equal balance of free states and Slave states.
  • Kansas Nebraska act &Popular Sovereighnty

    Kansas deciding wether or not to allow slavery, this formed Kansas and Nebraska territories.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Multiple violent political issues into the US involving free states and slave states.
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Gave slave owners the right to take their slaves into western territories
  • Election of Abraham Lincoln

    He faced Douglas and won
  • South Carolina Secession

    South Carolina seceeded or left the union.
  • Formation of the Confederate states of America

    When the first 13 states started the Union.
  • Abolition Movement

    a movement to end slavery and to free the African and Indian slaves.