Slavery
a cruel system that left African Americans with no rights or opportunities to gain an education beyond learning how to farm and harvest crops.
What are slave codes.
These events outraged northerners and abolitionists who believed the South had used secrecy and violence to further the cause of slavery.
What is the Ostend Manifesto and the caning of Charles Sumner?
Capture runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
the bombing of Fort Sumter in 1861
What is an immediate cause of the Civil War?
This act left the decision of becoming a free or slave state up to the residents of Kansas and Nebraska.
What is a direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?