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allowed Southern states to count a portion of its enslaved population for purposes of taxation and representation -
admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians -
the action of a state impeding or attempting to prevent the operation and enforcement within its territory of a law of the U.S. -
53 African natives were kidnapped from eastern Africa and sold into the Spanish slave trade -
was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico -
the evil and immorality of slavery. -
The Republican Party emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into American territories. The early Republican Party consisted of northern Protestants, factory workers, professionals, businessmen, prosperous farmers, and after 1866, former black slaves. -
was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska -
was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that the United States Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship -
United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election.It was the first election in which African Americans could vote in the reconstructed Southern states, in accordance with the First Reconstruction Act. -
was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War -
abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime -
granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws. -
granted African American men the right to vote. ... Social and economic segregation were added to black America's loss of political power.