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Frederick douglass and the north star
Influential newspaper for antislavery. Frederick Douglass created it to fight against oppressed blacks and colored people. -
Abolitionist movement
The abolitionist movement was spread throught the entire 1800's. It was first brought into debate in 1820's and finished in 1909. -
The Nullification crisis
was a showdown between the state of South Carolina and President Andrew Jackson. Southern states were furious over the Tariff of 1828, which taxed a number of manufactured goods from Europe. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was created to avert a crisis between the North and South. The Fugitive slave act was amneded and slave trade was abolished with this compromise. -
Kansas Nebraska act and popular soveirnighty
The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. cited history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska act -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott, an enslaved man of "the negro African race" who had been taken by his owners to free states and territories, attempted to sue for his freedom. In a 7–2 decision written by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the Court denied Scott's request. -
Election of 1860
The announcement of Lincoln’s victory signaled the secession of the Southern states, which since the beginning of the year had been publicly threatening secession if the Republicans gained the White House. -
South Carlina Secedes
On December 20, 1860, by a vote of 169-0, the South Carolina legislature enacted an "ordinance" that "the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of 'The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." sited http://www.ushistory.org/us/32e.asp -
Confederate states formation
Convinced that their way of life, based on slavery, was irretrievably threatened by the election of President Abraham Lincoln (November 1860), the seven states of the Deep South (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas) seceded from the Union during the following months. sited http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/confederate-states-of-america
