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Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 involving anti-slavery Free-States and pro-slavery Border Ruffian, or southern elements in Kansas.
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This decision declared slaves as private property and they had no rights
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John Brown led a failed raid trying to arm slaves in Virgina
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South Carolina was the first state to succeed from the United States
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he sends food and medical supplies to the fort
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P.G.T Beauregard opens fire on fort Sumter
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North outnumbered the south by about 2:1 So the north plans to attack from all directions
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CSA 12,000 killed in 3 hours battle ends in a draw
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Burnside Attacks Lee Union loses 13,000 and CSA lost 5,000
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Frees all enslaved people in rebellious states
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Abolished Slavery
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The Ku Klux Klan, with its long history of violence, is the most infamous and oldest of American hate groups. Although black Americans have typically been the Klan's primary target, it also has attacked Jews, immigrants, gays and lesbians and, until recently, Catholics.
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defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
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granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
