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It was a secret way to escape from slavery and was secret route. Harriet Tubman helped many slaves escape. Many slaves did escaped and were free. click here
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The cotton gin was invented in the United States by Eli Whitney. It made taking the seeds out of the cotton easier and made slavery grow.
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The Missouri compromise was an agreement between the north and south and was passed by congress. It regulated slavery in the countries western territories. click here
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Nat was an enslaved African slave who lead the slave rebellion. He wanted to free blacks in Southampton, county , Virginia.
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Wilmot Proviso wanted an American law to ban slavery in territory from Mexico in the Mexican War. The conflict over the Wilmot proviso was one of the biggestbthings that lead to the cival war
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Henry Clay has many solutions in attempt to seek compromise. The fugitive slave act was ammened and in washighton,D.C was abolished.
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Harriett Beecher was the author of the book " Uncle Tom's Cabin". She wanted to see how bad slavery was in the book. It was illegal in some states to even have the book.
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This was a bloody war of political confrontations in the U.S. It was about territory borders and slavery.
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It was the 16th presidential election and they met in south Carolina. Abraham Lincoln won and drafted John John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.
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Based on slavery it was threatened by the election of President Abraham Lincoln. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas seceded from the Union during the following months.
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Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on Fort Sumter. Robert Anderson the garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was has to leave the next day. The Union would not get Fort Sumter for nearly four years.