Through the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln- Early Life Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. In 1816, Lincoln and his family moved...

Dred Scott Dred Scott was born in Virginia in 1799 as a slave to Peter Blow and was later sold to Dr. John Emerson, a military surgeon. Du...

Kansas- Nebraska Act U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which divided the Nebraska territory into t...

The Compromise of 1850 The Compromise of 1850 began with the entry of California as a U.S. state. California had become highly populated be...

Missouri Compromise The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to prohibit slavery from growing in the U.S. following the acquisition the ...

Tariffs and Nullification A tariff is a tax on imports. In the 1800s, Southern states opposed many tariffs imposed by the Federal governmen...

The first slaves were brought to America 12 years after Jamestown was settled. During the first years of slavery, northern slaves worked on ...