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Abolition Movement Beginning
This movement was a movement to end slavery in America by law. Many supporters of this included Fredrick Douglass, and William Loyd Garrison. They worked together to spread the idea that slavery was evil and morally wrong, -
Nullification Crisis
South Carolina was not pleased with the tariffs of 1828 and 1832. So South Carolina Practiced State rights and said these tarrifs were null and void. They threatened to seceed if the federal goverment made them comply by force. -
Fredrick Douglass and the North star
Fredrick Douglass was a slave as a young boy and witnessed the horrors of slavery, he escaped to the north where he heard William Loyd Garrison speak about Anti-Slavery. Garisson urged Fredrick douglass to get involved, Fredrick Douglass then started his own anti slavery paper known as the North Star and begin to speak publicly about his life as a slave. -
The Comprimise of 1850
This compromise allowed California into the union as a free state and in return gave the south the fugitive slave laws which made it much more difficult to aid runaway slaves. This comprimise balanced the number of pro slave and anti slave states in the senate. -
Begginning of Bleeding Kanas
When the U.S. was debating whether or not to abolish slavery, Kansas was about to become a state. The government decided to leave the decision of whether or not slavery would be legal or not up to the residents of Kansas themselves. People disagreed on it so much that a sort of mini civil war broke out all across Kansas resulting in over 300 reported shootings. -
The Kansas/Nebraska Act and popular sovereignty
Stephen Douglas asks to repeal the Missouri Comprimise and to instituet popular sovereignty to all new territorys.popular sovereignty is the idea that people residing in a territory applying for statehood should allow the residents to vote for or against slavery. This lead to bleading Kanas and big disputes in goverment. -
The Dred Scott Decision
Dred scott was taken to a free stated and went to sue his owner for his freedom. This case went to the supreme court and ruled that he is still property of his master and that a slave taken to a free state is still the property of the slave owner. They also ruled that Dred scott did not have the right to sue because he was not a US citizen but merely a slave. -
The Election of Abhraham Lincoln
The election of Abraham Lincoln was the last straw for the south. The south felt that if he was elected slavery would be abolshied ruining the southern way of life causing the south to seceed from the union. -
South Carolina secession
South Carolina was the first state to seceed shortly after the election of Abraham Lincoln because they felt he would abolish slavery ruining the southern way of life. They also felt he would treat them unfairly because he was not simphathetique to the southern culture. -
Formation of the Confederate States of America
South Carolina was the first state to seceede from the union and soon after six other states followed. They formed the Confederate States of America. They elected Jefferson Davis as the first president. -
End of Bleeding Kanas
When the U.S. was debating whether or not to abolish slavery, Kansas was about to become a state. The government decided to leave the decision of whether or not slavery would be legal or not up to the residents of Kansas themselves. People disagreed on it so much that a sort of mini civil war broke out all across Kansas resulting in over 300 reported shootings. -
Abolition Movement Ending
This movement was a movement to end slavery in America by law. Many supporters of this included Fredrick Douglass, and William Loyd Garrison. They worked together to spread the idea that slavery was evil and morally wrong,
