Reflecting onto the time prior to the Civil war, man was undoubtedly immoral in the treatment of American Citizens. One might say it takes a leader looking from the outside in to truly see a solve a well conditioned problem. The election of Abraham Lincoln was the turning point for the upbringing of rights to African-American citizens in the United States, as he was the first anti-slavery candidate that the United States had ever seen at the time. The election of President Abraham Lincoln was preceded by the anti-slavery and abolition movement, territorial expansion, expansion of slavery, as well as a look onto the figureheads of one of America’s deadliest and well-known battles in history, the Civil War. The Missouri Compromise, occurring
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This rebellion resulted in the death of sixty confederate white men by the hands of Nat Turner and a some of his band of rebels. This rebellion lasted for around two days until the American military captured Nat Turner and his accomplices to the murders. Those involved were tried, incarcerated and killed. Nat Turner’s rebellion triggered at the utmost of 100 lynching’s in the South, and also as a result, the laws and regulations of African American’s were pushed back and limited to a level far worse than the limited freedom they previously had. In the Missouri compromise, tension had already begun to rise with those in the Union. The further-restriction of the freedoms of the African American slaves was just enough pressure to blow the lid off of the conformity of living in a society of unequal’s, “marking a turning point for the Old South” (Give Me Liberty!, …show more content…
Shortly following in 1854 was the Kansas-Nebraska act, granting the two territories the choice of slavery by vote of popularity. Advocates of both pro and anti slavery went to Kansas and ended in a bloodshed that lasted into 1861. During this violent bloodshed, the case of Dred Scott vs. Sanford was brought up in Virginia. This decision by the supreme court was one of the strongest triggers of what was the beginning of the civil war. Justice Roger B. Taney noted during the hearing, “[African American’s] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect” (Give Me Liberty!, 389). The last event that occurred before the election of Abraham Lincoln was John Brown’s raid. This was a team of allies that were anti-slavery who had the intentions of stealing weapons after raiding a governmental arsenal, and give them to slaves in the confederate south in order to organize a riot. This was the beginning of militarization of the confederate south, as a war was on the
This rebellion resulted in the death of sixty confederate white men by the hands of Nat Turner and a some of his band of rebels. This rebellion lasted for around two days until the American military captured Nat Turner and his accomplices to the murders. Those involved were tried, incarcerated and killed. Nat Turner’s rebellion triggered at the utmost of 100 lynching’s in the South, and also as a result, the laws and regulations of African American’s were pushed back and limited to a level far worse than the limited freedom they previously had. In the Missouri compromise, tension had already begun to rise with those in the Union. The further-restriction of the freedoms of the African American slaves was just enough pressure to blow the lid off of the conformity of living in a society of unequal’s, “marking a turning point for the Old South” (Give Me Liberty!, …show more content…
Shortly following in 1854 was the Kansas-Nebraska act, granting the two territories the choice of slavery by vote of popularity. Advocates of both pro and anti slavery went to Kansas and ended in a bloodshed that lasted into 1861. During this violent bloodshed, the case of Dred Scott vs. Sanford was brought up in Virginia. This decision by the supreme court was one of the strongest triggers of what was the beginning of the civil war. Justice Roger B. Taney noted during the hearing, “[African American’s] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect” (Give Me Liberty!, 389). The last event that occurred before the election of Abraham Lincoln was John Brown’s raid. This was a team of allies that were anti-slavery who had the intentions of stealing weapons after raiding a governmental arsenal, and give them to slaves in the confederate south in order to organize a riot. This was the beginning of militarization of the confederate south, as a war was on the