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Brooks-Sumner Event
On May 22, 1856, the world's greatest deliberative body became a clear zone. In one of the most dramatic and deeply moments in the Senate's entire history, a member of the House of Representatives entered the Senate chamber and savagely beat a senator into unconsciousness. The inspiration for this clash came three days earlier when Senator Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts antislavery Republican, -
Invention of cotton gin
Cotton Gin In 1794 there was a invenor who's name was Eli Whitney. He invented a machine that was made for cotton by speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. After this invention cotton was americans leading exports. Everyone wanted this machine to sell cotton and to get wealthy. -
Missouri Compromise
Tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Massouri was compromised to be a slave state. Many congresses wanted to keep peace within the people. They made a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. The congress made a line across the Louisiana Territory. -
Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
Tariff of 1828 and Nullification CrisisWas a sectional crisis, during presidency Andrew Jackson, it was withen the state of South Carolina and federual govnerment The nation suffered an economic downfall throughout the 1820s, and South Carolina was affected. Many South Carolina politicians blamed the change on the national tariff policy which developed after the War of 1812 to promote American manufactor after Feburary 1, 1833. They said attempts to use force to collect the taxes would lead to the states secession. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's RebellionThis slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Which was by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere between 55 to 65 people. They killed and tossed their heads out on the streets to warn others. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards the rebellion. State legislatures passed new laws prohibiting education of slaves and free black people in southernth U.S. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War of 1846-48. Soon after the war began, President James K. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million as part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty. -
Dred Scott Decsions
Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. 10 years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court. The most infamous case in history, the court decided that all people Aficans, slaves as well as those who were free -- could never become citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court. The court also ruled that the federal government did not have the power to prohibit salvery -
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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states. The term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives. The railroad led to Mexico or oversea. Kown as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860. 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped the Railroad -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. In the District of Columbia, Texas's borders and paid its debts to Mexico, and allowed the territories, that later became Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada to decide the slavery question for themselves. Making the blacks that were living up North free. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published!
It is the best selling book of the 19th century, the novel humanized slaves, oftenshocking, depictions of there lives and treatment. To prove there pain, and sarrow also what they had to suffer to go through, it is written by Harriet Beeecher Stowe. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act The Kansas- Nebrasksa Act was opening new lands for settlers, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular whether they would allow slavery in their territory. Which may have been the single most signifcant event leading to the Civil War. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas Bleeding Kansas is the term used to describe the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. Making a boundary between slave and free territory. Proslavery and free-state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influcence the decision. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
This was a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party At the time, U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures; thus Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature. Which was August 21, 1858 - October 15, 1858 -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. Brown had hopes that the local slave population would join the raid and through the raid’s success weapons would be supplied to slaves and freedom fighters throughout the country this was not to. -
Secession of Southern Statess
State by state, conventions were held, and the CONFEDERACY was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union. Within a few days, the two United States Senators from South Carolina submitted their resignations. -
Election of 1860
Northern democrats felt that Stephen Douglas had the best chance to defeat the "Black Republicians" They needed to select a candidate who could carry the North and win a majority of the Electoral College. To do that, the Republicans needed someone who could carry New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania four important states that remained uncertain. Lincoln had become the symbol of the frontier, hard work, the self-made man and the American dream. -
The Liberator is publsihed
The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831. Garrison co-published weekly issued for 35 years from January 1, 1831, to the final issue of December 29, 1865. The newspaper earned nationwide notoriety for its uncompromising advocacy.
