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The Abolition Movement
The Abolition Movement was a risky movement that used radical tactics to quickly bring slavery to an end. -
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The Nullification Crisis
A crisis from 1832 - 1833 in which south carolina declaired that tariffs made in 1832 were unconstitutional. -
Fredrick Douglass and The North Star
Fredrick Douglass was an escaped slave who went on to produce The North star, one of the most influential antislavery papers ever made. It was not only used to fight slavery but to give women rights also. Its motto was " Right is of no sex, truth is of no color, god is the father of us all, and we are all brethren. -
The Comprimise of 1850
The comprimise of 1850 was a group of 5 different bills, which addmited calafornia as a free state, slave trade is not allowed in washington D.C. , Land trade with Mexico, The fugative slave act was Reinforced, and utah and new mexico organized with slavery to be decided by popular sovereingty. -
Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854
The Kansas Nebraska act Created the kansas And Nebraska territories and opened a vote to allow or disallow slavery in those states. this led to the bleeding kansas Political Confrontations. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas Was a series of political confrontations over the Kansas-Nebraska act, demanding popular sovereignity for a free state or a slave state. this was a free state victory. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The dred Scott case was when Dred Scott, an enslaved African-American had been taken to a free state, and attempted to sue for his freedom. Scott lost, but it spurred much disagreement from anti-slave groups in the north. -
The Election of Abraham Licoln
On november 6 of 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President to come to office, and the first repuclican to become president. He recieved only 40% of all votes, but quickly defeated the other three candidates. after his election, seven states had seceded. -
South Carolina Secedes
South Carolina became the first state to seceed, claiming increasing hostility of non-slaveholdoing states, and saying that they want "white men to rule our destinies". after sucession, south carolina adopted the palmetto flag, and began to be called the palmetto republic. -
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The confederate states of america.
The Confederacy, or confederate states of america, was origionaly comprimized of the seven slave states, in the southern region of the U.S., and their reigional economy was dependent on agriculture, which depended on the enslavement of African Americans.
