The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act When California, one of the territories gained by the U.S. in the Mexican War, petitioned to become a state, the controversy over whether slavery ...

As the country expanded, the question of slavery gained new importance. Would the new territories be slave-holding or free? Over the next several years, Jackson seized millions of acres of Indian ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, British North America became a popular refuge for slaves fleeing the horrors of plantation life in the American South. In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

As deleterious as President Wilson’s racist presidential employment rules were against Black civil servants, the earlier draconian 1850 Fugitive Slave law changed America and endangered every ...

Settlers from the South wanted to move to the West and take their enslaved workers with them Northerners wanted to stop the spread of slavery As new states were created, the issue of slavery ...