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La Amistad was a Cuban ship transporting African slaves kidnapped in what is today Sierra Leone. During a trip in 1839, the captured Africans rebelled and took over the ship. The Amistad was eventually boarded off the coast of Long Island; afterwards, a trial has held to determine the fate of the captured Africans. The question before the court was whether the slaves who had taken over the ship were to be considered salvaged. The Amistad case became a major symbol of the Abolitionist movement.
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It was a conflict between the United States and Mexico primarily over territorial disputes. It began after the U.S. annexed Texas in 1845, which Mexico still considered its territory. Fulfilling for the United States its self-proclaimed manifest destiny to bestride the continental from sea to shining sea. But by midcentury, the growing pains of this adolescent republic threatened to tear the country apart before it reached maturity. (McPherson 5)
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It is a series of pieces of legislation, new enhanced fugitive slave law requires you by law as a citizen of the U.S to inform on fugitive slaves. If someone is a fugitive slave, you are now obligated under the law to turn them in. If you don’t turn them in, you can go to prison. The government enhanced the size of the U.S. martial service, which looked for fugitive slaves. Northerners get upset about this law because Southerners get to tell them what to do when it comes to fugitive slaves
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He was caught in Boston by U.S. marshals and then had to go before the tribunal, as they were waiting for their turn, a crowd burst through the doors of hundreds of people who grabbed Minkins, tore him away from these marshals, shot one of the marshals in the process and leave Minkins about half a mile away at the harbor where they put them on a boat and send him to Canada. Minkins is freed.
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Chapter a week in a newspaper is published
Written by woman Harriet Beecher Stowe. She
detailed a book, on her experience with fugitive slaves at a stop on the underground railroad
This was eye-opening for Northern. She goes to the white house and meets Lincoln, and he says, “So you, the little lady that started this big war.” The book gets banned in certain states.
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Was a series of violent conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in the Kansas Territory, sparked by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, proposed by Senator Stephen Douglas. This Act allowed the settlers of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether they would allow slavery, a concept known as popular sovereignty. The popular sovereignty election concept devised by Senator Douglas led to individuals on both sides of the political spectrum. (McPherson, 145-57).
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U.S. Senate and showed how divided the country was over slavery. Senator Charles Sumner from Massachusetts gave a speech criticizing slavery and insulting Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina. Butler’s relative, Congressman Preston Brooks, was angry about the insults. Brooks walked into the Senate, found Sumner at his desk, and attacked him with a heavy cane. Sumner was badly hurt and had to take years to recover. North saw this as violent. South supported him and sent him new canes as gifts
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It was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that said:
Enslaved people were not citizens and could not sue in federal court. Living in a free state or territory did not make an enslaved person free. Congress did not have the power to ban slavery in any territory.
This decision made slavery legal in all U.S. territories, angered many in the North, and brought the country closer to the Civil War. It is considered one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in U.S. history. -
He is a zealot abolitionist. It was an attempt by the abolitionist John Brown to start an armed insurrection against slavery by seizing a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). Brown, who believed that armed resistance was necessary to end slavery, aimed to seize weapons from the arsenal and distribute them to enslaved people, hoping to ignite a rebellion. However, the raid was a failure, and they were captured. (Varon, 326-35).
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The election of Abraham Lincoln as president without any Southern electoral votes marked the breaking point for Southern states. Lincoln's platform of stopping the expansion of slavery led to the secession of Southern states. (McPherson)
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