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The Abolition Movement
President Jefferson signed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves and it took effect in 1808. In 1820 he privately supported the Missouri Compromise because he believed that it would help to end slavery -
Nullification Crisis
President Andrew Jackson signed in the Tariff of 1832. The tariff was a protectionist tariff in the United States -
Frederick Douglass and the North Star
North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published in the United States by Frederick Douglass. The paper was first published on December 3, 1847 and stopped being published as The North Star Paper in June 1851 when it became the Frederick Douglass' Paper. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was five separate bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which endeda four-year argument between the slave states and the free states regarding the territories acquired.
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Kansas/Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement. The bill was first introduced on this date. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians". After believing rumors of Northerner's arrival thousands of armed pro-slavery men known as "Border Ruffians" poured into the Kansas Territory. -
The Dred Scott Decision
The Supreme Court ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and had no right to sue in federal court -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
On this date Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Lincoln refused to acknowledge the right to secession, and he would not allow federal property within Southern states. This would trigger the Civil War. -
South Carolina Secession
The white population of the state strongly supported the institution of slavery long before the war. On this date, South Carolina became the first Southern state to declare its secession and later formed the Confederacy. -
Formation of the Confederate States of America
The Confederacy was established in the Montgomery Convention in February 1861 (before Lincoln's inauguration in March) and disintegrated in April and May 1865.
