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southern secession
The slave states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri remained with the Union.The term secession had start being used in early as 1776. South Carolina threatened to separate when the Continental Congress sought to tax all the colonies on the basis of a total population count that would include slaves. -
Haitian Civil War
Civil war particaly starts in the French colony of St. Domingue, a Caribbean island. Slaves in the north rise in mass revolt under the leadership of the black bondsman whose name was Toussaint L'Ouverture. -
abolistionist movement
Abolitionism was a movement to end slavery, it was both formal and informal. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historical movement that out an end to the African and Indian slave trade and set slaves free.Abolitionists were a key part of the Civil War era, though it is hard to say that they caused the war itself. abolitionists produced more militant attacks on slavery in the years leading to the Civil War. -
uncle toms cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin contributed to the outbreak of the war by personalizing and sharing the political and economic arguments and ideas from the people about slavery. Stowe's informal writing style was inspired by the peopleUncle Tom's Cabin helped many 19th-century Americans determine what kind of country they wanted. -
john brown
Rival governments had been established in Kansas in 1855, one backed by proslavery Missourians, the other by antislavery groups causing problems -
dred scott decision
Dred Scott v. Sandford, U.S. was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens . on March 6, 1857, that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories. -
john brown
John Brown was a abolitionist whose hatred of slavery led him to seize the United States at Harpers Ferry in October 1859. It is widely thought that his intention was to arm slaves for a rebellion, though he denied that. -
the election 1860
that state was followed out of the Union by six other states, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, Lincoln's victory was the signal for the secession of South Carolina. The presidential Election of 1860 brought these conflicts to a head with dramatic consequences. The Democratic Party split into three groups -
missouri compromise
The Missouri Compromise settled the question of slavery in the United States for many years. Its repeal brought a lot of conflict that will lead to the Civil War.Missouri applied for statehood on December 18, 1818. This created a problem because the Northern states refused to allow another slave state to join the Union. -
underground railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used in the 1900's by enslaved African americans in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.Even some outspoken abolitionist newspaper cautioned against giving the remaining Southern states reason to secede.
