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The Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a debate between the North and the South, over whether or not states should be allowed to seceed. South Carolina wanted the right to seceed due to the unfair tariffs that were being placed upon them. In the end both sides claimed victory, nullification process allowed South Carolina what they wanted and Nationalists showed no state is more powerful than the federal government. -
The Abolition Movement
The Abolition Movement, was a movement to end slavery. -
Fredrick Douglass and the North Star
Douglass made a resolution to be free by the end of the year.
He planned an escape but was later caught and jailed.
He Fled the city in September of 1838 and settled in Bedford Massachusetts. -
The Compromise of 1850
The North and the South were in debate over the abolition of slavery. They had to come to a mutual compromise, California was madea free state, southerners were given fugitive slave law. They called it the compromise of 1850. -
Kansas /Nebraska Act & Popular Sovereignty
They wanted to repeal the Missouri compromise and institute popular sovereignty to all new territories. Kansas votes to be a slave state. There were two sides Oro-slavery and Anti-slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
There was violence between the pro and anti-slavery towns.
Burning of buildings and vandalism and murder on both sides. -
The Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott Decision was the supreme court rule, that slaves taken to free states were still property of their slave owners. They stated that there was no right to sue, they were "property" not a person. -
The Election Of Abraham Lincoln
It was also known as the election of 1860. When Lincoln was leading the south to leave or seceed from the south,. -
South Carolina Seceesion
South Carolina was the first state to seceed. It started the southern secession from the union. -
Formation Of The Confederate States Of America
They were in hopes of a peaceful seperation from the north.
