-
The American Colonization Society
Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color founded in 1816, supported the return of free African Americans to what was considered greater freedom in Africa. founders were Charles Fenton Mercer, Henry Clay, John Randolph, and Richard Bland Lee. -
Missouri Compromise
Was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress,involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. Prohibiting slavery. -
The American Antislavery Society Forms
Was a Abolitionist society founded by William Llyod Garrison and Arthur Tappan.Former slave Fredrick Douglass was a big part of the group speaking at meetings.The group was formed under the notion "better lives for slaves". The group acted in ways to changed poeples minds on slavery and let them be free. -
The Liberty Party forms
was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s. The party was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause. Believed the Constitution should be condemned as an evil pro-slavery document.The party included abolitionists who were willing to work within electoral politics to try to influence people to support their goals. -
The Mexican-American War Starts
was an armed conflict between the United States of America and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, America won. -
Wilmot Proviso
one of the major events leading to the American Civil War would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future.Congressman David Wilmot first introduced the Proviso in the United States House of Representatives on August 8, to resolve the Mexican–American War. It passed the House but failed in the Senate, -
California Gold Rush
began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The first to hear confirmed information of the gold rush were the people in Oregon, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), and Latin America, who were the first to start flocking to the state in late 1848.the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad -
The free Soil Party Forms
was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections.It was a third party that largely appealed to and drew its greatest strength from New York State.The party leadership consisted of former anti-slavery members of the Whig Party and the Democratic Party. Its main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories -
The Compromis of 1850
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.The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democrat Stephen Douglas, avoided secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published
is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stow,, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.300,000 copies were sold in the U.S. -
The Kansas- Nabraska Act
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
The Sumner-Brooks Affair
Sumner and Brooks fought a tough political battle against eachother. Sumner wanted to abolish slavery •Pro-slavery congressman Preston Brooks attcaked Sumners speeches. Leading to further violence from both parties for their beliefs. -
The Dred Scott Decision
was a black American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters. His case was based on the fact that although he and his wife Harriet Scott were slaves, he had lived with his master Dr. John Emerson in states and territories where slavery was illegal according to both state laws and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Scotts master had, had a change of heart on his views of slavery and funded the law suit against him. -
The Lincoln- Douglas Debates
were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas.At the time, U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures; thus Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature. The debates made Lincoln famous for his stand of Anti-slavery. -
The Election of 1860
The nation had been divided throughout the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners.In 1860, these issues finally came to a head. As a result of conflicting regional interests, the Democratic Party broke into Northern and Southern factions, and a new Constitutional Union Party appeared.
