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Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist and free slave. She was the most famous conductor on the underground railroad. She made 19 trips between the North and South following the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 people to freedom. Tubman and other conductors like herself were strongly hated by the south and the freeing of slaves caused the South to press for stronger fugitive slave acts in the North, which ended up being one of the causes for the civil war.
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The Wilmot Proviso was legislation that was introduced at the end of the Mexican-American war and it was debated for several years. I would have made slavery illegal in the new territories the US had acquired from winning the war which started splitting the north and south. The Proviso brought forth some of the first thoughts of succession from the US for southern states.
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The Underground Railroad made the Southerners angry as their slaves were escaping and the north unwillingness to act on this system made the Southerners hate the north more. This helped fuel the Southerners decision to succeed from the Union.
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The Abolitionist Movement was an anti-slavery movement between the 1930s and the end of the civil war. The Abolitionists were people who were very vocal and advocated for the freedom of all slaves. This group of people had a strong influence in the North and convinced politicians to impose new acts against slavery.
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Dred Scott was born into slavery and moved to Missouri with his owner in 1830. The problem with this was Missouri was a free state and so Scott believed he should be a free man. The supreme court ruled that Scott was property of his owner so therefore he could not become a free man.
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The main topic of these two presidential candidates is slavery. Lincoln made many good talking points but did not win the first election between the two but the debates set the stage for a future election where the two candidates represented very different views, Lincoln anti-slavery, and Douglas pro-slavery.
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Bleeding Kansas was a small war that took place in the new territory of Kansas. At the time Kansas used popular sovereignty to determine whether slavery would be allowed or not so the anti and pro-slavery groups fought violently to defend their beliefs.
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John Brown, an abolitionist prior to the civil war, attacked a federal arsenal at night on October 16th. They took several hostages and eventually Brown and his men were overrun by Robert E. Lee and a company of U.S. Marines. This raid showed the conflict that was occurring to the American people.
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John Brown was an extreme abolitionist prior to the civil war. He fought for the freedom of slaves across the United States. He was a symbol of anti-slavery for slaves and abolitionists alike. He conducted a raid on Harpers Ferry in October 1859, and in December he was captured. He was tried by the state of Virginia for treason and murder and was found guilty. He was executed shortly after and before his death said "the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood".
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When Abraham Lincoln won the Election in 1860 it was the nail in the coffin for the civil war to begin. Lincoln was very anti-slavery and he made the southerners worried that their slaves may be freed. Slavery was an important system for southerners as they had relied on slave labor to carry their crops for hundreds of years.
