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The Nulification Crisis- 1828-1832
The Nulification Crisis began after congress passed a high protective tariff. The people whose businesses were in agriculture were not happy with these tariffs. So the state of South Carolina said they should be allowed to make a federal law null and void if they didn't agree with it. This caused a large controversy between nationalists and South Carolina. (i just put a date because i do not know the exact date it began.) -
The Abolitionist Movement- 1830's
The abolitionist movement attempted to achieve immediate emancipation of all slaves and the ending of racial segregation and discrimination. Although abolitionist feelings had been strong during the American Revolution and in the Upper South during the 1820s, the abolitionist movement did not turn into a militant crusade until the 1830s. -
Frederick Douglass and the North Star- 1840's
After Douglass escaped, he wanted to promote freedom for all slaves. He published a newspaper in Rochester, NY, called The North Star. Douglass's goals were to "abolish slavery in all its forms and aspects, promote the moral and intellectual improvement of the COLORED PEOPLE, and hasten the day of FREEDOM to the Three Millions of our enslaved fellow countrymen." -
The Compromise of 1850
It was a series of five bills that were intended to keep away sectional conflict. Its goal was to deal with the spread of slavery to territories in order to keep northern and southern interests balanced. -
The Kansas/Nebraska Act and popular sovereignty- 1854
It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It 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. -
Bleeding Kansas- 1854-1858
Was the time when the Kansas territory was the site of much violence over whether the territory would be free or slave. These tragic events helped to inspire the Civil War and the dark times which followed which included massacres, political uprisings, murders, and shadow governments. -
The Dred Scott decision- 1857
A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants, whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the Constitution and were not U.S. citizens. Furthermore, the Court ruled that slaves, as chattels or private property, could not be taken away from their owners without due process. -
The Election of Abraham Lincoln- 1860
Abraham Lincoln fought for the freedom of slaves. Within a few months of his election, seven Southern states, led by South Carolina, responded with declarations of secession. Four additional Southern states seceded after the Battle of Fort Sumter. -
South Carolina secession- 1860
South Carolina became the first state to declare its secession from the United States. This led to the beginning of the Civil War. -
Formation of the Confederate States of America- 1861
This was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern slave states that had declared their secession from the United States. The U.S. government rejected secession as illegal. Following a Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter, a federal fort in the Confederate state of South Carolina, the U.S. used military action to defeat the Confederacy.
