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Apr 11, 2011 · The subject of the Scots' involvement in the American Civil War is a fascinating, complicated story, which on this 150th anniversary of the day the first shots were fired deserves an airing.
- The Compromise of 1850
- The Fugitive Slave Act
- 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' Is Published
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act
- The Pottawatomie Massacre
- The Dred Scott Decision
- John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
- The Election of 1860
- The Formation of The Confederacy
In the wake of the Mexican War, tensions developed between the North and South over whether the western land gained by the U.S. should become free or slave territory. Things came to a head when California sought approval to enter the Union as a free state in 1849, which would have upset the balance struck by the Missouri Compromise several decades ...
An existing federal law, enacted by Congress in 1793, allowed local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners, and imposed penalties upon anyone who aided their flight. But the new version included in the Compromise of 1850 went much further, by compelling citizens to assist in capturing escapees, denying the captives the right...
In 1851, author Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was still grieving the loss of her 18-month-old son Samuel to cholera two years earlier, wrote to the publisher of a Washington, D.C.-based abolitionist newspaper, National Era, and offered to write a fictional serial about the cruelty of slavery. Stowe later explained that losing her child helped her to u...
In 1854, Senator Douglas, the author of the Compromise of 1850, introduced another piece of legislation “to organize the Territory of Nebraska,” an area that covered not just that present-day state but also Kansas, as well as Montana and the Dakotas, according to the U.S. Senate’s history of the law.Douglas was promoting a transcontinental railroad...
One of those who went to Kansas was a radical abolitionist and religious zealot namedJohn Brown, who had worked as a conductor on the Underground Railroad and founded an organization that helped slaves escape to Canada. Brown moved to Kansas Territory, where in May 1856, he was angered by the destruction of a newspaper office and other property in ...
Dred Scott, an enslaved man, was born in Virginia and later lived in Alabama and Missouri. In 1831, his original enslaver died, and he was purchased by a U.S. Army surgeon named John Emerson. Emerson took him to the free state of Illinois and also Wisconsin, a territory where slavery was illegal due to the Missouri Compromise. During that time, Sco...
Brown dreamed of carrying out an even bigger attack, one that would ignite a mass uprising of Southern enslaved people. On a night in October 1859, he and a band of 22 men launched a raid on Harpers Ferry, a town in what is now West Virginia, and captured some prominent local citizens and seized the federal arsenal there. His small force soon was c...
Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught lawyer who had served a single term in Congress, emerged in the mid-1850s as an articulate and persuasive critic of slavery, and achieved national prominence with a series of debates against Senator Stephen Douglas in an unsuccessful campaign for Douglas’s seat. When the Republican Party held a convention to nominate ...
The election of the first U.S. president who was a vocal opponent of slavery came as a shock to Southerners. “Now, there is going to be someone in the White House who is not going to do what the South says it wants done, reflexively,” Green explains. “Their feeling is, no matter what Lincoln says about protecting our rights, he’s not going to do th...
Oct 16, 2020 · For the millions of enslaved people residing in the South, this decision dealt a devastating blow. Although many at the time could not have known it, the Dred Scott decision was one of the last way stations on the road to civil war. Scott never lived to see the bloodshed that broke out less than four years after the Supreme Court ruled against him.
Jan 23, 2013 · During a landmark anniversary for the American Civil War, BBC News Scotland readers come forward with names of Scots who fought in the conflict.
Oct 8, 2024 · Winfield Scott was an American army officer who held the rank of general in three wars and was the unsuccessful Whig candidate for president in 1852. He was the foremost American military figure between the Revolution and the Civil War. Scott was commissioned a captain of artillery in 1808 and
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Nov 11, 2024 · American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. It arose out of disputes over slavery and states’ rights. When antislavery candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president (1860), the Southern states seceded.
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Dec 18, 2012 · The US is marking the 150th anniversary of the 1861-65 American Civil War. But in Scotland too there is an effort to remember the bloody conflict. Former serviceman, the Reverend Bill Mackie, is ...
