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The Abolition Movement
The whole point of the abolitionist movement was to end slavery, discrimination and segregation. To end slavery they had to make a law. -
The Nullification Crisis
The United states were threaten by South Carolina saying that they will seceed from the U.S after the passage of tariff seen as a violation of State's rights. There was a guess that the most effective propoment of the Consititution between Jackson and Vice President John Calhoun. -
Frederick Douglass and the North Star
Subscribed to The Liberator, a weekly newspaper by William Garrison, Fredrick Douglass was inspirted to publish about the North Star. North Star was a 19th century anti-slavery newspaper published in the United States by abolitionist Frederick Douglass published until June 1851 -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 allowed California into the Union as a free state and in return, gives southerners the fugitive slave law. In which makes the process of aiding runaways more difficult -
The Kansas/Nebraska Act and popular sovereignty
The Kansas/Nebraska Act was an act that allowed slavery in territories allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. The whole point of this act was to open up many thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad. -
Bleeding Kansas
The Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory. It would be decided by votes or more exactly which side had more votes counted by officials. -
The Dred Scott decision
The Dred Scott decision was that the Supreme Court rules that slaves taken to free states and still the property of their slave owners. Dred Scott was a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois & the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom. -
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln was elected to end slavery. Also the Constitution already didn't approve slavery so that was President Lincoln's job to end slavery. -
South Carolina secession
Secession means in the case of southern States, the act of breaking away from the United States. South Carolina became the first Southern state to declare its secession and later formed the Confederacy. -
Formation of the Confederate States of America
This was a government set up in 1861 by 7 states that still had slavery of the Lower South. This declared their secession from the United States following the November 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln
