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Slavery was of the causes in the civil war when the north wanted slavery but the south did not.

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A Short History of Slavery | 5 Minute Video

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Kansas collapsed into the civil war, and about 200 people were killed.

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the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished

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required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.

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David Walker's Appeal, William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator, and Frederick Douglass' The North Star

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assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal armoury located at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

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Lincoln was elected in 1860 and the reaction of the nation was swift and tragic. Southern states began to secceed, removing themselves from the Union and forming the confederate states of America.

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The secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of six more states—Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas–and the threat of secession by four more—Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.

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The addi- tional land caused bitter debate about slavery.

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repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.

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period of guerrilla warfare is referred to as Bleeding Kansas because of the blood shed by pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups, lasting until the violence died down in roughly 1859.

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1789 and the beginning of government under the Constitution, congressional holdings document the history of representative government

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Every state in the Confederacy issued an “Article of Secession” declaring their break from the Union.