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a person who favors formal withdrawal from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

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South Carolinians who favored seceding from the Union, only as a last resort

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a political party started after Compromise of 1850 to define politicians who supported the Compromise

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The Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union was a proclamation issued on December 24, 1860, by the government of South Carolina to explain its reasons for seceding from the United States

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United States presidential election of 1860. United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell

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an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

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an American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States

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an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865

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an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott Decision".

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a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections as well as in some state elections

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a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections as well as in some state elections

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a series of violent political confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern" elements in Kansas

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A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states

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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. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´

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

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An armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848

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an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837

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authorized the use of military force against any state that resisted the tariff acts

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an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina, and the seventh Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832

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tariffs that are enacted with the aim of protecting a domestic industry. Tariffs are also imposed in order to raise government revenue, or to reduce an undesirable activity

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a United States sectional political crisis in 1832-33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government

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an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free