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Slavery is the practice of owning people and forcing them to work without pay or freedom, essentially treating them as property

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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five laws designed to address the issue of slavery in newly acquired territories from the Mexican-American War

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made it a crime to help runaway

slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.

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Antislavery literature refers to the body of written works that emerged to oppose slavery and advocate for its abolition

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Benjamin Franklin and the Antislavery Movement | PBS | A Film by Ken Burns

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a US law that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed residents of each territory to decide whether to permit slavery through a vote

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a series of violent confrontations that erupted in the Kansas Territory between 1854 and 1861, primarily over the issue of slavery

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ruled that enslaved people, including Dred Scott, were not US citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court

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Lincoln challenged Douglas in the debate

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Franklin Pierce won the election of 1852

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A tariff is a tax imposed on imported goods

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a social and political movement, primarily in the 19th century, that sought to abolish the practice of slavery

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Nat Turner led more than fifty followers in a bloody revolt in Southampton, Virginia, killing nearly 60 White people, mostly women and children

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The Missouri Compromise was a package of measures designed to resolve the issue of slavery in newly formed states, primarily Missouri and Maine