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This was a movement to free all enslaved African American's and abolish slavery. It was influenced by other states that abolshed slavery. They had leader's such as Harriet Tubman and frederick Douglass.
This was a movement to free all enslaved African American's and abolish slavery. It was influenced by other states that abolshed slavery. They had leader's such as Harriet Tubman and frederick Douglass. -
Missouri Compromise
This was a compromise between Anti and pro slaver's. They banded slavery in Lousianna and regulated it in the western boundries. -
Nat Turner
He killed Slave owners and this showed that slaves where not happy with the living conditions that they where in. This made slave owners become more strict and this pushed abolishiners to their breaking point. -
Fugitive Slave Act/ Underground Rail Road
The Underground Railwoad was an excape path for slaves. But the act said all African Americans that where to excape slavery where to be captured ad return. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book depicting the horrible life of a slave writen by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book was writen to inform readers in the north about the horrible conditions and show why it is wrong. -
Dred Scott Decision
A slave was taken to a free state and sued so he could be free. The U.S. Supreme court ruled any African American decent could not be an U.S. citizen. -
John Brown and Bleeding Kansas
He believed that america's sins of slavery could only be washed away witth blood. So he killed a lot of people who thought slavery was right. He was hung for his action's. -
The Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln won the presidential race and this split the north and south. His believes was against slavery and the south did not want to be apart of this. Slavery was too essential to them. -
Southern Succession
Southern States withdrawal from the U.S. because they did not want to be part of the change that was coming. they wanted to forever have slavery.
