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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a secret network of people, places, and routes in the south that lead slaves up to the north (Canada) to freedom. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The woman Stowe hired to take care of the children admitted to Stowe that she was an escaped slave. Fearing recapture, she peaded for help. Stowe and Calvin transported her to a stop on the Underground Railroad. She also wrote a book called "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that she got from a vision in church of an old black man being beaten to death by two other black men while a seering white man looked on. -
Missiouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise A.K.A The Compromise of 1820 all started when the U.S. bought a vast area of land acquired by France “The Louisiana territory” in 1803. The Missouri territory then applied for admission to statehood. There were already slaves and slave-owners there. Then James Tallmadge of New York Proposed “That no more slaves be brought into Missouri, and that the children of slaves already there be freed at the age of 25.”The Tallmadge amendment passed in the house but then got rejecte -
Missiouri Compromise Finished
but then got rejected in the senate. Southerners said that Congress didn’t have right to make conditions for a territory to become a state. The north argued that states in the union had joined without any conditions. They came to an agreement by a two-part compromise. That granted Missouri permission to statehood only if it would be a slave state, but if your above the 36, 30 line you would be a free state. -
Nate Turner's Rebellion
In 1831 a slave named Nat Turner led a rebellion in Virginia. Turner and a group of followers killed some sixty white men, women, and children. Turner and 16 of his conspirators were captured and executed, but the incident continued to haunt Southern whites. Blacks were randomly killed all over; many were beheaded. In the wake of the uprising planters tightened their grip on slaves and slavery their grip on slaves and slavery. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of 5 bills, passed in the United States in September 9, 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democrat Stephen Douglas, avoided secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years. -
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Bleeding Kansas
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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 settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave how tryed to sue for his freedom. -
Presidential election of 1860
Lincoln won his election without one single vote by the southern states. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
