Period 5 Timeline

Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia,

belief that the US was destined to expand across the North American continent

Prospectors, known as "Forty-niners" - Streamed into California in 1849 after the discovery of gold

called to outlaw slavery in the capital (Washington D.C.) and established the Fugitive Slave Laws; admitted California as a free state, established popular sovereignty

Law that provided for the return of escaped slaves in the North to their owners in the South

Anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that fueled the abolitionist movement in the northern states

It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.

Bleeding Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern" elements in Kansas.

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393, also known simply as the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law.

Political party that opposed slavery in the territories in the 1848 and 1852 elections - most members became Republicans in 1854