Even on the highest level, the tension and angry spread between Senators from the North and the South. The craziest example was the “Bully” Brooks incident of 1857. During a session of Congress the senator from Massachusetts, Senator Charles Sumner delivered a very provoking speech. His speech “The Crime Against Kansas” was an attack against the Missourian Border Ruffians and the two senators Atchison, and Andrew Butler of South Carolina for the “crimes” that the South had committed to gain another
the southern people existed as far back as 1854. In 1854, the topic of admission of slave/free states arose again with the Kansas-Nebraska Act; however, this debate would lead to greater conflict than the previous two. The South wished to gain Kansas as a slave state but it resided above the previously establish 36-30 line which divided future free/slave states. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, which called for the respective territories status to be decided by popular sovereignty, was passed to get around
escapades at Harper’s Ferry and Pottawotomie. In 1855, Kansas elected its first territorial governing body. This body would run a voting poll to decide on the subject of slavery and whether it would be allowed in Kansas or not. Hundreds of pro-slavery believers crossed the border from Missouri into Kansas to cast their vote for slavery to try and balance out the ratio of free and slave states. It is likely that Kansas would have been voted as a slave state even if the Missourians
increase the number of votes to legalize slavery in the state. In Kansas, the issues between pro-slavery “Border Ruffians”, and anti-slavery “Free Staters” became increasingly violent. The Pottawatomie Massacre, in Franklin County, Kansas, was a raid led by John Brown and a group of abolitionist against pro-slavery. This massacre left five settlers dead and was a part of many more violent incidents to come in what will be known as Bleeding Kansas. The new territories be admitted into the Union were
is considered a hero by the fugitives (Causes of the Civil War). Another notable figure standing up for slave rights was Dred Scott. He was an African American who wanted official citizenship to the US. He argued that any man with African blood has the right to become a citizen. This case became so big that it made to the supreme court to eventually be turned down(Dred Scott). The first violent conflict about slavery was with John Brown and his men attacking Harpers Ferry. Born in Connecticut in 1800
eventual doom was foreseen for the divided, un-united United States. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise, in essence, giving the new states of Kansas and Nebraska the ability to decide whether slavery would be allowed within its borders (“Causes Of The Civil War”). Affirmation of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise came when a federal judge ruled, in the Dred Scott v. Sanford court case of 1857, that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional;
became known as the Confederate States of America. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the South rebelled and sought to attack the Union. The war broke out on April 12, 1861 in South Carolina when the Confederate attacked the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter. The war was fought from 1861-1865 and extended as far north as Maryland and Pennsylvania, west to Mississippi, east to the Atlantic and south to the Gulf of Mexico. There were approximately 620,000 causalities and it ended with a union victory
preserve and some that wanted to eradicate the primary cause of the war, slavery. There were the political giants, such as Abraham Lincoln, and Stephen Douglas. There were seditious abolitionists such as John Brown, escaped slaves such as Dred Scott, and abolitionist writers like Harriet Beecher Stowe. These were the people who, ultimately, brought a beginning to the end of what Lincoln called “a moral, a social, and a political wrong”(Oates 66). Southern states, including the 11 states
extended well north of this, to the Nueces River (150 miles north of the Rio Grande). President James K. Polk sent the army under the leadership of General (and later President) Zachary Taylor to the Rio Grande to establish a fort. After seeing the Americans construct the fort in what they considered to be their land, the Mexicans sent 2,000 troops to attack a U.S. scout force, consisted of only 70 American troops. When Polk heard of this attack, he plead Congress to declare war on Mexico for invading
13, 1814, while the United States was at war with Great Britain after friction concerning trade between the two countries, Francis Scott Key authored a poem that was titled “The Defence of Fort McHenry”, which was later put to music and re-named “The Star-Spangled Banner”. Key was motivated to write the poem when, after he saw the American Flag still standing at Fort McHenry after it was bombed by the British during the War of 1812. Once the poem was written, it was printed in newspapers and ultimately