-
The Missouri Crisis (Red)
The difference between northern states and southern states. The differences between free and slavery state cause the tension between North and South, in which lead to later separation. -
Missouri Compromise (Middle)
Balance free and slave states, the compromise marked a line at Missouri. Slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri -
Underground Railroad (Blue)
The railroad under ground was a secret safe house used in 19the century used by African-America slaves, it enslaved people to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. -
William Garrison Publishes The Liberator (Red)
The Liberator was a newspaper against slavery, founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831.Garrison co-published weekly issues of The Liberator from Boston continuously for 35 years, from January 1, 1831, to the final issue of December 29, 1865. And it also brought up women's right. -
Nat Turner's Slave Revolt (Red)
Nat Turner's slave revolt was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831, led by Nat Turner.It was the largest and deadliest slave uprising in U.S. history. -
Texas Annexation (Middle)
This event admitted Texas as the 28th state of the United States. The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico on March 2, 1836. -
The Wilmot Proviso (Red)
The Wilmot Proviso proposed a law to ban slavery in the land where acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.The conflict over the Wilmot proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850 (Middle)
The compromise packed 5 bills passed by the U.S. congress in 1850. New Mexico and Utah allowed to decline their own slavery law. California is admitted as a free state. The slave trade was banned in the district of Columbia. The fugitive slave law was passed. -
Publication Of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Red)
This was an anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book and the plays it inspired a number of stereotypes about black people. Later the novel became so popular which later attributed to the start of civil war. -
Fugitive Slave Law (Red)
It was included in the compromise of 1850, it provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. It gave slave owner more power to caught the slave who escaped. -
Bleeding Kansas (Red)
The Bleeding Kansas also known as Border war.The central problem that started this event is:"Would Kansas allow or outlaw the slavery." It was a violent confrontation between slavery and anti-slavery -
Formation Of The Republic Party (Blue)
The Republican Party quickly became the principal opposition to the dominant Democratic Party and the briefly popular Know Nothing Party. The meeting that represented the founding of the Republican Party was meet in 1854, March 20 in Winsconsin. -
Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision (Red)
Dred Scott Supreme Court decision was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law. It stated that slavers are not consider as a citizen. Slaves can't sue on Federal Courts. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act (Red)
The popular sovereignty clause of the law led pro- and anti-slavery elements to flood into Kansas with the goal of voting slavery up or down, resulting in Bleeding Kansas. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates (Red)
1858 Lincoln and Douglas’ debates, took place in 7 different cities and it includes the issue about slavery. Lincoln’s success in his debates with Douglas helped later the winning of election. The widespread news and public agreement also popularize Lincoln in U.S. -
John's Brown Raid At Harpers Ferry (Red)
John Brown was a white abolitionist initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860 (Red)
Abraham Lincoln won the election. This election marked the end of the South's political dominance over the nation. He preserved the Union, paved the way for the abolition of slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
