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Slavery
Slavery In America Began When African Americans Were Brought From Their Colony Jamestown Virginia In 1619 Just To Aid Tobacco. And The Slaves Were Practiced Through-Out The American Colonies Between The 17th & 18th Centuries. & The African American Helped Build The Economic Foundations Of The New Nations Coming. By The Mid 19th Century Americas Expansion Grew Abolitionist Movement To The North For Them To Provoke A Better Debate Over Slavery To Tear The Nation Apart For The bloody war. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise Was An Effort By Congress To Defuse The Sectional & Political Rivalries Triggered By The Request Of Missouri Late In The 1819 For Admission As A State In Which Slavery Would Be Permitted. At The Time, The United States Contained Twenty-Two States, Evenly Divided Between Slave & Free. -
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad Was Neither Underground Nor A Railroad. It Got Its Name Because Its Activities Had To Be Carried Out As A Secret, Using Darkness Or Disguise, And Because Railway Terms Were Used By Those Involved With System To Describe How It Worked. Various Routes Were Lines, Stopping Places Were Called Stations, Those Who Did Along The Way They Conductors & Their Charges Were Known As Packages Or Freight. -
The Dred Scott Decision
Sandford, Legal Case In Which U.S Supreme Court On March 6, 1857, Ruled ( 7-2 ) That A Slave ( Dred Scott ) Who Had Resided In A Free State & Territory ( Were Slavery Was Allowed ) Was Not Thereby Entitled To His Freedom That African Americans Were Not & Could Never Be Citizens Of The United States & That The Missouri Compromise ( 1820 ), Which Had Declared Free All Territories Of West Of Missouri & North Of Latitude 36-30, Was Unconstitutional. -
John Brown
John Brown Was Born In Torrington, Connecticut, John Brown Belonged To A Devout Family With Extreme Anti-Slavery Views. He Had Been Married Twice And He Fathered Twenty Children. The Expanding Family Moved With Brown Throughout His Travels, Residing In Ohio Massachusetts, Pennsylvania & New York. Brown Failed At Several Business Ventures Before Declaring Bankruptcy In 1842. -
Abraham Lincoln Election
This First Started On November,6 1860 And So Abraham Lincoln Was The 16th President Of The United States He Was Competing With Stephen A. Douglas And John C. Breckinridge Of The Southern Democrats & John Bell Made The New Constitutional Union Party. Lincolns Victory Was The Signal For The Secession For The South Carolina ( Dec.20, 1860 ) So That State Was Followed Out To The Union By Six Other States- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, And Texas. -
The Signal For Secession
Within Three Months Of Lincoln's Election, Seven States Had Seceded From The Union. Just As Springfield, Illinois Celebrated The Election Of Its Favorite Son To The Presidency On November 7, So Did Charleston South Carolina, Which Did Not Cast A Single Vote For Him. It Knew That The Election Meant The Formation Of A New Nation. ( The Charleston Mercury ) Said, The Tea Has Been Thrown. The Revolution Of 1860 Has Been Initiated. -
Border States
The Border States That Concluded other States Were Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland , And Missouri. And West Virginia Was Separated From Virginia During The Civil War And It Was Also Considered A Border State.