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William advocated for the immediate emancipation of all slaves
Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)
-South Hampton county, VA
-Rebellion of the enslaved in VA, led by Nat turner and causing the death of 55-65 white people and had the greatest slave revolt fatality amount.
Increased tensions overall
Leading to an increase in discontent of slavery
Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)
-Originally during the same time period in both Philadelphia and North Carolina
Abolitionists groups helped develop a series of secret pathways that slaves from the south could use to escape to freedom in the north.
-resisted the repressive laws that held slaves without rights, causing for stricter laws and increase tensions on both sides.
-and therefore a direct contributing cause of the civil war
Signed in February 2nd, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico
Mexico ceded 55% of its territory with parts of present day Arizona, CA, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah to the US
-the treaty helped precipitate the war . Expansion of slaver in the US was settled by the Missouri compromise but the New Mexico land as new US territory
Wilmot Proviso (1846)
-issued on august 8th, 1846 by PA Democratic congressman David Wilmot
-prohibited the expansion of slavery into any territory gained by the US from Mexico from the Mexican-American war settlement result
-southerners who opposed it because they sad the northern effort to exclude slavery as an insult to southern honor
Frederick Douglass begins publishing the North Star (1847)
-Frederick Douglas an American abolitionist founded and edited his first anti slavery newspaper, in dec 3, 1847 to help guide those escaping slavery to the north
-“Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no color-God is the father of us all,and all we are Brethen.
-fueled people’s beliefs in anti slavery movement and the opposite against it
Creation of Free Soil Party (1848)
-a meeting of anti slavery meme we of the Whig party and liberty party established this party
-opposed the extension of slavery into west territories.
-“Free soul, free speech, free labor, free men.”
-resulted from discontented elements in the Democratic and Whig parties
-intensified by the acquisition of new territories from Mexico and the argument of slavery being of not being permitted in those territories
California Gold Rush (1849)
A gold rush started by James W Marshall finding gold at Sutters mill in Coloma
Bringing 300,000 people to CA from everywhere
-created lasting impact by propelling significant industrial and agricultural development
-rapid increase is gold seekers in California
-California’s financial role with many union governments supported and funded economic growth from gold from CA’s sierras mountains and therefore sped up CA’s admission to the union as the 31st state.
-when CA applied for statehood and applied to enter the union with a constitution prohibited the southern system of slavery, provoking the crisis in congress between supporting of slavery and anti-slavery politicians .
Compromise of 1850
-five separate bills passed by the US Congress in September of 1850
-lessening the political confrontation between slave and free star in territories acquired from Mex-American war.
-admitted CA as free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves where there to be slave or free state, define TX as new-Mexico boundary, and made it easier for slave owners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
-fugitive slave law passed, overturned Missouri compromise and left overall issue of slavery unresolved lead to civil war
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published (1852
-March 20, 1852
-an anti slavery novel in the true evil and immortality of slavery
Effect in civil war:
-had major influence in the way the American public viewed slavery -strengthened northern abolitionism
-increased sectionalism Between the north and south
-contributing cause of the civil war because it changed the way
-the south felt the north was spreading lies about slavery and that people were believing it
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) & Bleeding Kansas (~1854-1861)
-added KS and Nebraska to union, increasing anti slavery states
Allows these states/territories to determined weather they would be slave state or not
-repealed the Missouri Compromise, crested two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty
-controversial bill raised possibility of anti slavery states becoming pro slavery where it had once been banned, repeal red Missouri compromise
-led to bleeding Kansas
-series of violent conflicts involving anti slavery and pro slavery themes started with killing of five slave supporters
Shaped American politics and now three states could chose weather to be free of not increasing tensions
Dred Scott v.Sanford(1857)
-legal case where US Supreme Court on March 6, 1857 that Dred Scot a slave who resided in free state was not entitled to his freedoms
-not entitled to feeding and because African American de Wilde never b citizens of the US and Missouri compromise was “unconstitutional “
-added to fuel sectional differences and controversy pushing country closer to civil war
Formation of the republican party (1854)
-formed when the Whig party split
-Northern whiffs wanted to stop the spread of slavery to W territories.
-the Republican Party increased Democrats and free-soil party members
-emerged to combat the Kansas-Nebraska Act and expansion of slavery in W territories
Increasing tensions in the issue of slavery expansion to the W decision
John Brown’s Massacre (1856)
-the murder of 5 men from pro slavery settlement in Pottawatomie Creek, KAN, US
-by an anti slavery part led the abolitionist John Brown and composed of men from his family
-mutilated their bodies to scare other slave owners to keep slavery supporters from moving into KS.
-marked beginning of bloodshed of the “bleeding Kansas” period because both sides of pro slavery and anti- slavery began an action of terror, intimidation and conflict with weaponry
Election of 1860
-demonstrated the divisions within the United States just before the civil war.
-election is not usual because four strong candidates compete for the presidency.
-Lincoln won in the election of 1860 without any S votes and became 1st Republican president
-he won majority in electoral college but only 40% of pop vote because the country was split over 4 candidates with different views of slavery