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The Abolitionist Movement
The Abolitionist Movement reform movement was during the 18th and 19th centuries. Often called the antislavery movement, it sought to end the enslavement of Africans and people of African descent in Europe, the Americas, and Africa itself. -
The Nullification Crisis
The convention declared that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina after February 1, 1833. They said that attempts to use force to collect the taxes would lead to the state's secession. -
Fredrick Douglass and North Star
The North Start was a newspaper that was started be abolitionist leader Fredrick Douglass. This form of communication helped spred the news on slavery -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861 -
Kansas/Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery with in their borders. -
Dred Scott Decision
Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled Dred Scott who had resided in a free state and territory was not entitled to his freedom.That African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States. -
The election of 1860
Vters in the United States went to the polls in an election that ended with Abraham Lincoln as President, in an act that that led to the Civil War. -
South Carolins secession
A secession convention called by the South Carolina legislature voted unanimously, to secede from the United States. After the election of Abraham Lincoln on November 6, 1860, South Carolinians perceived a threat to their slave system that Congressional compromise could not pacify. -
Formation of the Confederate States of America
The Confederacy Established. South Carolina was the first to secede followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. Representatives of those states announced the formation of the Confederate States of America, with its capital at Montgomery, Alabama
