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underground railroad
The underground railroad was the network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada.It moved hundreds of slaves northward each year.It was hard for slaves to go to the underground railroad because they had to escape for the slaveholder. Next is conductor would pose as a slave and help slavesescape at night and would have to travel 10 to 20 miles to get to a safe place. They would either travel by trains or boats to get to the destination. -
Invention of the cotton gin
This invention offered Southern planters a justification to maintain and expand slavery even as a growing number of Americans supported its abolition. A quote by Eli Whitney, ''I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.'' -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise Summary & Map
Maine would enter as a free state, Missouri would come in with slaves, but no slavery would be permitted in other states developed out of the Louisiana Purchase. -
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Tariff of 1820 & Nullification Crisis
The Tariff passed by Congess was designed to protect industry in the northern United States. The Nullification Crisis was a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. The crisis ensued after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state. -
The Liberator is published
The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp. It was published continuously for 35 years. A quote from the newspaper , ''I AM aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as Truth, and as uncompromising as Justice.'' -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion Video
This was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South. -
Wilmot Proviso
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The Wilmot Proviso was designed to ban slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas Nebraska Act with map
This created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement. The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up many thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad. -
"Bleeding Kansas"
The kansas-nebraska overturned the missouri compromise adn used the latitude as a boundary for fee and slave territory. The residents would determine if the area is free or a slave state.Then there was violence over the decision. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott Decision
Legal case in which the U.S Supreme ruled that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
The raid was intened to be the first stagein an elaborate plan to establish an independent stronghold of freed slaves in the moutains of Maryland and Virgina. Brown was captured during the raid and was later convicted of treason and was hanged.Then the white southerns were afraid of the salve rebellions and increased mounting tension between the northern and southern states before the American Civil War. -
Election of 1860
In the election of 1860 was for to elect their candidate for president between Lincoln or Douglsd. The northern states thought that Douglas had the best chance to win. Lincoln argued against the spread of slavery. Douglas wanted to maintain that each terrority should decide whether it should become free or a slave state. At the end Lincoln was hailed to be the greatest american presidents to end slavery for perserving the union and for his powerful oratory and unique character. -
Secession of Southern States
Southern states succeded from the U.S when Abraham Lincoln was elected as president in 1860. Southerners thought the government was becoming too strong. They did not think the government had the right to tell them how they should live.
