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Causes Of The Civil War
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South Carolina Port (1)
SC opens a new port to accommodate importation of slaves from Africa(Strengthen) -
Louisiana Prohibition (1)
US prohibits slave trade from foreign territories to Louisiana(Opposition) -
No Education For Slaves (1)
VA outlaws blacks whether free or enslaved from meeting for the purposes of education and forbids teaching blacks to read and write(Strengthen) -
A Capital Offense (1)
US law declares trans-atlantic slave trading to be a capital offense(Opposition) -
The Missouri Compromise (1)
Missouri would enter the union as a slave state and maine as a free state, saving the balance of power in the senate. they wanted equal balance of free and slave states. (Opposition) -
Penalizing (1)
SC announces penalties for introducing any written anti-slavery material into the states -
Nat Turner Insurrection (1)
Nat Turner leads insurrection in South Hampton, Virginia. 55+ whites killed and it becomes the largest rebellion of it's time (Opposition) -
American Anti-Slavery Society (1)
Philidelphia hosts the 1st American Anti-slavery society convention(Strengthen) -
Henry Highland Garnet protest for voting rights. 2
In 1837, Garnet, other abolitionists, and a massive meeting of young Negro men met in New York and protested against a stipulation passed by a state constitutional convention decreeing that before a Negro could vote he had to own $250.00 worth of landed property. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1)
Treaty of guadalupe hidalgo leads to US gaining California and the south pushes for it to be a slave state(Strenghthen) -
Wilmot Proviso (1)
A bill to outlaw slavery in any territory the United States that might acquire from the War with Mexico (Opposition) -
Frederick Douglas established the North Star; a newspaper used to speak out against slavery. 2
Douglas made the North Star the most influential abolitionist newspaper in America. It was used to denounce slavery, and fight for the emancipation of women, and other oppresed groups. -
Harriet Tubman Starts the Underground Railroad 2
Harriet Tubman found out she was going to be sold, so she escaped with a couple of other slaves. With the help from a white woman, Harriet was able to escape and start the Underground Railroad. -
Compromise Of 1850
Compromise of 1850 made california a free state. It also relieved Texas of it's debt. It also delayed the Civil War for a while becasue it made both sides happy. -
Fugitive Slave Law (1)
A bill to outlaw slavery in any territory the United States that might acquire from the War with Mexico (Opposition) -
The Compromise of 1850 (1)
The compromise was that if California became a free state, slave states would become a minority in the Senate just as they were in the House(Opposition) -
Sojourner Truth's amazing speech. "Ain't I a Woman?" 2
Sojourner Truth gave this speech to speak out against how white women were treated nicely and didn't have to do work, but the black women had to even though they were both women. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin get more people involved in the Abolition Movement
Uncle Tom's Cabin got people to join the abolition movement and open up slavery to what it was really like. It showed that slave owner's treated their slaves horribly. -
Bleeding Kansas, the warm up for the Civil War
Bleeding Kansas was a series of little fights that broke out in Kansas. It was against pro-slavery and anti- slavery believers. The fights ended in 1858. -
Pottawatomie Massacre led by John Brown
John Brown led the Pottawatomie Massacre, and killed 5 men in 1856 during Bleeding Kansas. -
Dred Scott Case 2
Dred Scott tried to get his freedom in court, because his master took him to states and territories that were free and that slavery was illegal. The court ruled that he was still a slave and that the missouri compromise was unconstitutional. -
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown and his children, attacked Harper's Ferry to arm the slaves to rebel against their owners. The slaves didn't come to help him and John Brown and his children died during the raid because of no support from the slaves.
