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Fugitive Slave Act
The Abolotionists recieved the admission of California as a free state. Also the prohibition of slave-trading in the District of Colombia. This Act continued the operation of the fabled Underground Railroad. -
Compromise of 1850
California demanded to enter the Union as a free state. This upsetted the balance between free and slave states in the U.S Senate. For this reason, Henry Clay decided to make a series of resolutions and avoided a crisis between North and South. -
Uncle Toms Cabin -- Harriet Beech Stowe
An Anti Slavery novel by Harriet Beech Stowe. The main focus of ''Uncle Toms Cabin'' was to show that African Americans have souls and feelings just like other humans. Harriet believed that blacks suffer just as much as whites. Thus, mistreating them isnt right. -
Formation of the New Republican Party
The Whigs disintegrated soon after the Missouri Compromise Act was successfully passed allowing slave or free slave states to be decided in the territories by popular sovereignity. The Whigs begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. In Wisconson, March 20, 1854 the formation of the Republican Party was made.The Civil War identified the Republican Party as the party of the Victorious North. -
Nativism and the Know Nothing Party
This party was a political movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1850's. This party was empowered by poluar fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic imigrants. This movement was active from 1854 to 1856. Nativists had became active in politics in New York in 1843 as the American Republican Party. Members would repond with ' I know nothing'' when asked about their party's positions. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
This Act set aside the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery into the territory up North. This act guarenteed that the issue of slavery should be decided by residents of each territory. After the bill passing in 1854, the violence increased between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers. -
Wilmot Proviso
David Wilmot was a man who believed that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist. Proposed banning slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico -
Charles Sumner Beating-- Preston Brooks
Sumner was avowed leader and Aboltionist of the Republican Party for Massachusetts. After the act of Missourri Compromise of 1820 was nullified, the debate over slavery had intensified. His speech ''The Crime Against Kansas'' was bitter. He blasted the '' murderous robbers from Missouri calling them 'hirelings'. Brooks was advocate of slavery. Sumner addressed copies of the speech at his desk when Preston Brooks attacked. -
Dred Scott Decision
In March 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger, declared that all blacks were not and could never become citizens of the United States. Dred Scott, was a slave who lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to Missouri.Ten years after the trial, he still remained as a slave. This made alot of Northerners take a good look at the true injustice of slavery. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
The Lincoln-Douglas Debate was between the political leaders Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Am Douglas. Lincoln lost this debate, However, these events led him into national prominence. This led him to his election as President of the United States. Douglas was all for the people. His actions helped enact Compromise of 1850 and the violence in Kansas. Lincolns debate drew the entire nations attention stating that US could not survive with half-slave and half-free states. -
Harpers Ferry Incident
John Brown and his eighteen other men raided a town called Harper Ferry. Brown was an agent in the Undereground Railroad helping slaves escape to freedom for decades. He hated slavery and spent his adult life fightig against it. After keeping hold hostages for 36 hours, the raid failed. This event got the attetion of many anti-slavery audiences and scared many pro-slavery audiences. -
Lincoln elected President
Abraham Lincolns election as president was unusual to many southerners. Democrats wanted to leave the Union which is why they hoped their part would've lost. The election had many abolotionist members of Congress and many southern states move toward secession from the Union. -
Southern Succession
Southerners believed the governmant was too strong. They believed if they remained in the United States, the North would soon control them. Therefore, they decided to leave the Union and form a new nation called the Confederate States of America. The Northern states were called the Union. President Lincoln said he would fight to keep th Southern States as part of the United States. The Union soldeiers refused to leave their fort in Carolina, so the Conferates fired cannons at the fort in 1861. -
Bleeding Kansas
This was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery. This event was a proxy war between Northeners and Southeners over the important issue; slavery. The term was made by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune. These events enclosed directly declared the American Civil WAR.
