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The Underground Railroad
Underground RailroadSlaves were moved from "station" to "station" by abolitionists in order to get them all the way North. There they would be considered "free slaves". -
Invention of the Cotton Gin
Cotton GinEli Whitney invented the cotton gin to help with the production of cotton. The downside was that it caused more slaves to be brought to America, because they needed more poeple to pick cotton. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 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 and free. -
Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
The Tariff of 1828 was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States designed to protect industry in the northern United States. The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis in 1832–33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, that involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. -
The LIberator
The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
30 slaves led by Nat Turner went to South Hampton County, Virginia and slaughtered 50+ caucasian people. Federal troops were forced to get involved and ended the uprising, followed by the hanging of over a dozen slaves. -
WIlmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (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. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", -
'Bleeding Kansas'
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving people against slavery and people for it, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri until 1861 -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery ... -
John Brown's raid on Harper Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
Secession of Southern States
South Carolina was the first to leave the Union and form a new nation called the Confederate States of America. Four months later, six other states seceded. They were Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana. Later Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them.
