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Missouri Compromise
Massachusetts was accepted into the Union as a slave and Maine accepted as a free state and drew a boundary line across the former Louisiana territory between free and slave regions. This was a compromise after Massachusetts requested to be a slave state. -
Abolitionist Movement
The abolitionist movement was a movement to end slavery prominent from the 1830s to the 1870s. In 1831 the Liberater a famous abolitionist newspaper was published by Garrison. -
Nullification Crisis
-In 1832-33 during the presidency of Andrew Jackson in which South Carolina tried and to break apart from the Union over a tariff. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Congress ruled that escaped slaves upon capture had to be returned to their masters and that people in free had to obey this law. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe this anti-slavery novel helped spark the civil war. -
Ungerground Railroad
1850-1860 A network of secret routes and safe houses used to helped fugitive slaves, part of the abolitionist movement. This is the date the Harriet Tubman began to help with the underground railroad. -
John Brown and Bleeding Kansas
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Dred Scott Decision
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney handed down the ruling that African-Americans could not be citizens. -
1860 Presidential Election
This election divided the democratic party into Northern and Southern Factions and a new Constitutional Union appeared. Abraham Lincoln was elected president. -
Southern Sucession
On December 20, 1860 North Carolina succeeded from the union. This southern succession extended through June 8, 1861.
