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South Carolina threatens to secede from the U.S. after the passage of tariff. They saw it as a violation of state's rights.
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This as a movement that intended on ending slavery by law. To put an end to racial discrimination and segregation.
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Frederick Douglass, a former slave, became an abolitionist author and speaker. He established the abolitionist paper The North Star on December 3, 1847, in Rochester, NY, and developed it into the most influential black antislavery paper published during the antebellum era.
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The Compromise of 1850 allowed California into the Union as a free state. In return, gives southerners the fugitive slave law. Which makes the process of aiding runaways more difficult.
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This created the territories of Kansas and Nebrask, opening new lands for setlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820. By allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.
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Supreme Court rules that slaves taken to free states. In March of 1857, Scott lost the decision as seven out of nine Justices on the Supreme Court declared no slave or descendant of a slave could be a U.S. citizen, or ever had been a U.S. citizen. As a non-citizen, the court stated, Scott had no rights and could not sue in a Federal Court and must remain a slave.
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Bleeding Kansas was a bitter war that pitted neighbor against neighbor. In 1859, a radical abolitionist from Kansas named John Brown raided the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Though the raid failed, it fueled the passions of nothern abolitionists who made him a martyr.
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The Election of 1860 was the year the Abraham Linoln was elected as President. Leading the South to leave or secede from the U.S.
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South Carolina was the first state to officially secede from the United States soon after the election. They were followed by six other Southern states. These states formed together a new nation which they named the Confederate States of America.
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After Licoln became President, seven states seceded from the U.S.. Representatives from the seven seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to found the Confederate States of America.
