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Underground Railroad
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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. -
Cotton Gin
The Cotton Ginwas created in October of 1793 by Eli Whitney. This invention revolutionized the way cotton was deseed. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a compromise of 1820 that allowed Missouri to join the USA as a slave state. But also allowed Maine to join as a free state to keep the ratio of slave and free states. -
Tariff of 1828 and Nullification Crisis
This Tariff put taxes on goods which led to the south pay more for what the did natural have. The Nullification Crisis was were South Carolina came to the conclustion that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellionwas a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. The rebellion was led by Nat Turner were he and many rebel slaves killed about 65 whites. This was the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in American history. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. The conflict over the proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Uncle Toms Cabin is a book about anti-slvery. It sold over 300000 copies in only 3 months. -
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861 -
The Liberator
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Election of 1860
This was an election that took place in 1860. It was The United States 19th presidential election. In this presidential election there were four candidates which were Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas. The winner of this election was Abraham Lincoln. -
Secession of the Southern Statess
This secession is just that secession of the southern states from the union. This is were the southern states slowly seceded from the United States in fear of losing slavery. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown and a group of supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. Then Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. All in attempts to get slaves free and getting slaves to stand up for them slaves. Which didn't ever happen.
