Slavery in the South

By alexeberhart

  • Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise was a joint bill that made Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state. This was a temporary solution for slavery but caused major conflict later on.

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia.. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed around 55 to 65 people, the highest number of deaths caused by any slave uprising in the American South.
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    Slavery in the South

  • Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass escaped slavery and taught himself how to read and write. He drew lots of attention from speaking about abolishing slavery.

  • Wilmot Proviso

    The Wilmot Proviso was introduced by David Wilmot and said that none of the territory aqcuried in the Mexican War should be open to slavery. This also caused conflict between the North and the South.

  • Free Soil Movement

    The Free Soil Party was a political party formed of Northerns that did not want slavery expanded into the Western territories.

  • Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman espaced slavery in 1849 to the North. She was also able to bring back 60 other slaves to the Northern States to freedom.
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    Underground Railroad

    A network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the help of abolitionists and allies who were helping their cause.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers

  • Compromise of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a Free state. Everything that was gained from Mexico was declared Free. It was also a part of the Fugitive Slave Law.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe,was one of the first popular books written by a women. The book shows the impact slavery had on familes and the charecters often talked about the topic of slavery. This book had a huge impact on society and was used in the abolition movement.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas–Nebraska Act 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 settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    A series of violent events with abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in KansasTerritory where new proslavery and antislavery constitutions competed.The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making the Civil War almost guaranteed.

  • Dred Scott vs. Sanford

    It made two main rulings. The first ruling was that African Americans were not citizens, and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court. The second ruling was that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in any territory acquired subsequent to the creation of the United States.