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The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War
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the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state
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was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. 1854
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Abolitionists affiliated with John Brown vs. proslavery Kansas settlers
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was a slave who sought his freedom through the American legal system.
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a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln,
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John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, now West Virginia, in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery
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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. James Buchanan, the United States president, declared the ordinance illegal but did not act to stop it.
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representatives from the six seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to formally establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America.
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Anderson and 86 soldiers surrendered the fort on April 13.
