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Speech from Senator Daniel Webster(Compromise)
This speech was written by Senator Daniel Webster. On the 7th of March in 1850, Daniel Webster preformed this speech. The creation of this speech was to promote peace and compromise within the United States. -
William G. Allen's response to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
This response was created by William G. Allen. This soource was created the 20th of May in 1852. As Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin captivated many throught the United States, it formed new abolitionists throughout the north. -
Bleeding Kansas(Conflict)
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavaery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements. Since Bleeding Kansas considers a widespreasd of many events, There is no specific date. -
article in the Free Press(Compromise)
This document was created by a writer working for the Detroit newspaper company the Free Press. This article was issued the 13th of January in 1854. This date was brought by consructive reasearch of the Free Press and its articles on the Nebraska Compromise. -
Opinion of Chief Justice Roger Taney in Dred Scott v. Sandford(Compromise)
n 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court. This suit began an eleven-year legal fight that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a landmark decision declaring that the Scotts remained slaves. This decision contributed to rising tensions between the free and slave states just before the American Civil War. There is no specific date of Scott's approval of freedom. -
Front Page Headline of the New York Times
The canvass for the Presidency of the United States terminated last evening, in all the States of the Union, under the revised regulation of Congress, passed in 1845, and the result, by the vote of New-York, is placed beyond question at once. It elects ABRAHAM LINCOLN of Illinois; President, and HANNIBAL HAMLIN of Maine, Vice-President of the United States, for four years, from the 4th March -
The Hanging of John Brown(Conflict)
In October of 1859, John Brown, the notoriously violent abolitionist, led eighteen armed men, both black and white, on a raid of the little railroad town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His goal was to seize the Federal arsenal there and then lead a slave insurrection across the south. After a two-day standoff with local militia and Federal troops, in which ten of his men were shot or killed, John Brown was captured and put on trial in Virginia state court. He was found guilty and hanged. -
Charleston Mercury "The Union is Dissolved"(Conflict)
The Charleston Mercury’s “The Union is Dissolved” broadside was the first Confederate publication as South Carolina was the first state to secede. It went to press 15 minutes after the secession ordinance was passed. This newspaper article was published on Decmeber 20th in 1860 based on the date printed on the document itself
