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was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North
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declared that all runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters
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is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852
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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromis
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preacher who believed they in moving south to convince anit slavery immigrants to move to kansas
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He is primarily remembered for severely beating Senator Charles Sumner (Free Soil-Massachusetts), an abolitionist, with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate
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John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers killed five settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas
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was an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857
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the second of four proposed constitutions for the state of Kansas
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were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas,
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Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular sovereignty proposed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the majority decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford
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was an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859
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The central issue of the presidential election of 1860 was bound to be slavery
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South Carolina became the first Southern state to declare its secession and later formed the Confederacy
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was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery that took place in the Kansas Territory
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also known as Quantrill's Raid, was a rebel guerrilla attack during the U.S. Civil War by Quantrill's Raiders, led by William Clarke Quantrill, on the pro-Union town of Lawrence, Kansas.
