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Underground Railroad
for slaves to run away and be free. The three main trails were Appalachain Mtn, through the swaps, and the Mississippi river . Thousands of slaves traveled each of these trails just to be free. The Underground Railroad consisted of codes such as patters in quilts, sayings, The Underground Railroad also had abolitionists or people that helped the blacks get north to freedom. Station masters were the keepers of a safe-housee. Stockholders were people who donated foods to the slaves for the trip. -
Missouri Compromise
The North and South’s opinions both differed whether to make Missouri a slave state or not. When the Missouri Compromise had come to an agreement they both began to settle down. There were a lot of different outcomes and issues but as the congress fought for what they and the peoples thought was right, everyone had a little say in everything. -
Missouri Compromise
Because the southern slaveholders had migrated into the Missouri territory it made it more difficult to decide whether to make Missouri a slave state . Soon Congressman James Tallmadge stated that no more slaves be brought into the state of Missouri and that all children slaves that had fleeted into Missouri had to be freed at age 25. When Senator William Pinkney got involved his word against his was States already joined in union, when they joined, they joined without any conditions and if con -
Missouri Compromise
These disagreements were settled by a ‘two-part compromise’. The first part was Missouri gained admission to the union as a slave state, with a boundary that lays at the Louisiana territory. All land of 36’ 30’ of the north latitude would be free! The second part was Maine was immediately made into statehood, which would help the Senate to keep up the balance between slave and free state representation. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner was the leader of the slave rebellion that took place in Virgina in 1831. He had a group of 60-70 slaves in the 'mob' that he started. They killed all the plantation owners starting at the Travis Plantation. They felt that whites deserved to be killed like they were enslaved. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner was executed by being hung in jail for leading the slave rebellion. Some slaves were found innocent and set free. -
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Dred Scott Case
When the court date came around the judge said that he was a slave and he was owned so he wasn't really a citizen he was property. This angered many people and put them on the brink of war. -
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Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was born a slave, but when he got his owner who was an Army Surgen he lived in the free lands with him for 12 years. Finally his owner decided it was time to go back to the south . When they got back Dred Scott became a slave again and worked for him in the fields. Dred Scott didn't like it and since he had lived a s a free man for 12 years he decided to sue for his freedom. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 ended slave trade but continued to take all the blacks that had been born free on were former slaves that had run away back to the south to be enslaved again. -
The Five parts of the Compromise
The Compromise of 1850 had five parts to it. The first part was California would enter the territory as a free state, making there more free states than slave. The Second part of the Compromise decided what to do with all the land we gained in the Mexican War. Part three was slave trade was NO longer ALLOWED.The Fourth part to the compromise was the border was settled. Texas was to get paid 10 million dollars if they would stop fighting for the land they had wanted. -
The fifth part of the compromise
The firth part to the compromise was to have a fugitive slave act in, in this act all the people in the country had to help catch runaway slaves and take them back to their original owners. -
Bleeding Kansas
Tensions began when the Kansas-Nebraska bill became a law. Antislavery settlers from New Ednglandmoved to Kansas to try to fight against the Slave Power. Settlers who were comitted to keeping the territory of Kansas free of slavery were called free soilers. Proslavery settlers from Missouri moved into Kansas to vote illegally in the territory hoping Kansas would become a slave state. Lawrence Kansas and was started by a proslvery supporter. -
Bleeding Kansas
The first act of violence was in was in Lawrence Kansas and was started by a proslavery supporter. Abolitionist John Brown led other antislavery supporters in an attack on proslvery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek, where the killed five proslavery men in front of their families. The looting in Lawrence and Browns reaction near Pottawtomie Creek started a summer of muderous raids throughout Kansas giving the territory the name "Bleeding Kansas." -
Presidential Election of 1860
The presidential election of 1860 was the Election of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln won the election without one southern vote. Lincoln was moderate meaning he supported the south and north. Lincoln knew that the south couldn't go without slaves so he wasn't going to end it. Lincoln had 180 electoral votes for the election of 1860. -
Abolitionist Event
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a very famous abolitionist. The first run away slave she ever helped was a women she hired to babysit her kids, the black women was very honest. She told Harriet straight up that she was a run away slave and she can baby sit but she is going to have to be hidden. Harriet then took the fugitive to a part of the Underground Railroad so she could run further north into Canda and be free without worry. -
Abolitionist Events
Harriet Beecher Stowe became so famous by writing "Uncle Toms Cabin". The book was based on a vision she had in church of two black men beat up another black while a white man just watched. Harriet wrote about codes and the Underground Railroad, she had this book published in the U.S. and sold 300,000 copies. In the U.K. she sold 1.5 million. This is why Harriet Beecher Stowe was so famous. -
Attack of Fort Sumpter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was a circle of fire formed around the small union fort which was ganged up by all the confederate forts. After this attack, it put us on the brink of a civil war . Lincoln had sent supplies to the fort but they hadn't gotten them in time before the attack broke out. This happend after South Carolina seceded from the union.
