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Abolitionist Movement
During this time, African Americans began to stand up for their rights and freedoms. The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded. American Colonization Society's program of voluntary gradual emancipation and black emigration had begun. These activities provoked hostile responses like mobs, burning of abolitionist literature, and the banning of consideration of antislavery petitions. Whites also started standing up for African Americans. -
Missouri Compromise
Slavery would be permitted in Missouri so that the United States was divided into 12 free states and 12 slave states. This way the country still had balance. The repeal of this compromise began sectional conflict, bringing the nation to war. -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
A slave named Nat Turner incited an uprising that spread through several plantations in southern Virginia. Turner and approximately seventy cohorts killed around sixty white people. Virginia lawmakers reacted by prohibiting education for both slaves and free black people. -
Fugative Slave Act & Underground Railroad
The Fugitive Slave Act was a comprimis between Southern Slave-Adding interists and Northern Free Soilers. It allowed the capture and returm of runaway slaves. The Underground Railroad helped slaves escape. This drew attention to the inhumanity of slavery. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a fictional story illustrating the harsh conditions of slavery for people who don't comprehend how horrible it is. It personalized political and economic arguments about slavery. -
John Brown and Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a period of violence during the settling of Kansas terrotory. Resisdents of Kansas were to decide whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state. John Brown led the anti-slavery fighters. -
Dread Scott Decision
The Supreme Court affirms the right of slave owners to take their slaves into free states. Dred Scott was brought to Illinois and Wisconsin, free states, where slavery was banned. Scott believed he deserved freedom now that he was in free terrotory so he sued the supreme court. He was unsuccessful due to him being a slave. There could be slavery throughout the whole union due the court's decision. This led to was. -
The Election of 1860
On March 4, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as President. The newly formed Republican party adopted an anti-slavery platform that led to a narrow victory for Abraham Lincoln, arguably the greatest president in US history and also set the die for secession. -
Southern Secession
Led to the establishment of the Confederacy and ultimately the Civil War. It was the most serious secession movement in the United States and was defeated when the Union armies defeated the Confederate armies in the Civil War, 1861-65.
