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package of five bills that defused a four year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War.
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It 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.
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kansas territory had a big violence to decide if the state would be free of slave or not.
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repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery in the territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude.
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the name given to the breech loading Sharps rifles that were supplied to the anti-slavery immigrants in Kansas.
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went to trial to sue for his freedom, after a decade it was finally brought to the Supreme Court. He did not win because they decided that African Americans should not have the right to become citizens. He remained a slave.
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rising tensions between north and south and the issue of slavery into the center of the congress.
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reaction to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery forces
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a series of formal political debates between challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas. The debates were basically about slavery.
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Stephen Douglas's answer to Lincoln's question, in which he explained that slavery could only exist where there was a slave code. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_freeport_doctrine#ixzz278FQBJ2A
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he was abolitionist and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry.
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basically battle over slavery.
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Addresses to the Southern States and to the world have been issued and published; their length precludes their publication here.
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targeted Lawrence due to the town's long support of abolition and its reputation as a center for Jayhawkers and Redlegs, which were free-state militia and vigilante groups known for attacking and destroying farms and plantations in Missouri's pro-slavery western counties.
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It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War.
