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Incident put fear in the heart of Southerners and resulted in even harsher laws against slaves, and deepened the schism between slave-holders and free-soilers (an anti-slavery political party)
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Famous abolitionist newspaper and helped widen the gap between the North and South
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Was help led by Fredrick Douglass and was an abolitionist led group
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Grimke defended the right of women to speak in public in defense of a moral cause.
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Encouraged slaves to rebel in some type of way and inspired slave revolts
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First women's rights convention "It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman""
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Tubman eventually frees a bunch of other slaves and became a famous icon in slave history
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Shows the true divide between the issue of slavery in the nation
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Defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War
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Provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory (Part of compromise of 1850)
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Famous speech given at a women's convention and encouraged women's rights
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The book had a major influence on the way the American public viewed slavery and had over 300k copies sold
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series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas
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Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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Founded under the issue of slavery and caused a even bigger gap between the relations of the the south and north
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Aided the cause of the civil war and reconstruction era after the civil war and did not want to compromise when it came to the eradication of slavery
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This decision affirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, there by negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.
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It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War and was issued in Kansas
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First global economic crisis due to international trade
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Addressing the problem that had divided the nation into two hostile camps and that threatened the continued existence of the Union.
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Abolitionist group that raid Harper Ferry and shows the divide between the country
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First state to secede and beginning of the Civil war
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Causes mass disappointment in the Democrats because he was able to beat Douglass
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6 seceded states found a new country called the "Confederate States of America" and unified the slave states and officially isolated them from the northern states
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Start of the Civil war and south wins
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The Union’s claim of victory at Antietam and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation are thought to be why Republicans held the House in the 1862 mid-term elections and it ended hope for Britain and France for them to help the confederates
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Turning point of the war and Lee lost a third of all of his men
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Proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." and helped end slavery in the US forever
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Lincoln gave an inspiring speech that has become one of the most popular speeches in American history.
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US General who helped lead the Union to victory by being able to control all of US troops
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His goal was to destroy internal improvements in order to crush the confederates within the inside
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Showed that even in war that America would still undergo elections in order to show that we still stood under the idea of democracy
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Lincoln was shot by the confederates and the north suffered a major loss because of this
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Hate group that was created to suppress blacks in the country after the civil war and it mostly worked for a while
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This officially ended slavery in the US for good as it was now part of the constitution
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The resulting Battle of Appomattox Court House, which lasted only a few hours, effectively brought the four-year Civil War to an end.
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Became pres. after Lincoln was shot and gave ex-confederates a lot rights and was not that good of president
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Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
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Scalawags made up the biggest group of delegates to the Radical Reconstruction-era legislatures and moved mostly south after the civil war and some were planters
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established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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overrides a veto by President Andrew Johnson. The law's chief thrust was to offer protection to slaves freed in the aftermath of the Civil War. Which again shows a divide
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legislation enacted in 1867–68 that outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War (Mostly written by radical republicans)
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Grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War.
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Showed the divide in the nation after the Civil war as radical republicans and republicans were seeking for power within the nation
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working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery
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the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
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the amendment was interpreted to convey limited protection pertinent to a small minority of rights.
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Court’s decision was further evidence of its narrow interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the federal government’s diminishing focus on Reconstruction.
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Was the direct cause of the end of the reconstruction era in 1877 and white democrats in the south took over from the radical republicans in the south
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It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
