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Fugitive slave act
The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.
With the underground railroad more slaves were escaping into the north and eventually into canada where fugitive slave acts could not bother them anymore. This was just adding to the conflict between the north and the south ultimately leading them into war. -
Underfround Railroad
The network of routes extended through 14 Northern states and the promised land of Canada–beyond the reach of fugitive-slave hunters.
With the underground railroad more slaves were escaping into the north and eventually into canada where fugitive slave acts could not bother them anymore. This was just adding to the conflict between the north and the south ultimately leading them into war. -
Missourri Compromise
The missouri compromise drew a line at 36 30 N that would state all states above said line would be free slave states and every state to the south of that line would still be a slave state.
This was a significant event to causing the civil war because this ultimately split the nation in what would later be in the US and the confederate States. The two would go to war because of the slave conflict which led to the Civil War. -
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Abolitionist Movement
The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation.
Abolitionist wanted to abolish slavery in the south, doing so they made propaganda, wrote books etc to get rid of it. Since slavery was heavily used in the south tensions were high between the north and the south that would end up to be a big conflict between them. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This book would make northern religious group mad at the southerners for the treatment of slaves. And adding more problems to the big conflict at hand. -
John Brown and Bleeding Kansas
John Brown was a radical abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of the slavery system.During the Bleeding Kansas conflicts, Brown and his sons led attacks on pro-slavery residents.Brown soon became a hero in the eyes of Northern extremists.Brown and 21 of his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry.Their goal was to capture supplies and use them to arm a slave rebellion.Brown was captured during the raid and later hanged. Anti slavery activist were becom -
Dred Scott Decision
Born around 1800, Scott migrated westward with his master, Peter Blow. They travelled from Scott's home state of Virginia to Alabama and then, in 1830, to St. Louis, Missouri. Two years later Peter Blow died; Scott was subsequently bought by army surgeon Dr. John Emerson, who later took Scott to the free state of Illinois. In the spring of 1836, after a stay of two and a half years. Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and cour -
Election of 1860
the Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority of the electoral votes, putting Abraham Lincoln in the White House with almost no support from the South. Before Lincoln's inauguration, seven Southern states declared their secession and formed the Confederacy.
The significance of the Election was that because of Abraham Lincoln winning seven southern states seceded from the Union forming the confederate states. this would lead to the union to go to war to bring back those 7 state -
Abraham Lincoln Elected president
When the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, Southern fears that the Republicans would abolish slavery reached a new peak. Lincoln was an avowed opponent of the expansion of slavery but said he would not interfere with it where it existed. This marked election is often thought of the first event in a series that turned into the civil war that started April of 1861. -
Southern Succession
The first seven seceding states of the Lower South set up a provisional government at Montgomery, Alabama. After hostilities began at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, the border states of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to Richmond, Virginia. The eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the Confederate States of America. The United states had no other option than to go into the civil war against
