-
Slaves cant have trial by a jury, in court you cant testify on you behalf. Anyone that helps a slave would be fined and jailed.
-
-
The compromise of 1850 was proposed by Henry Clay. North gets California as a free stae and South gets the furgitive slave law.
-
Harriet Tuban was one of the most famous conducter on the URR. She helped over 300 slaves escape. She was wanted in 1856 for &40,000. On her 26 time on the train to give more slaves their freedom she was killed.
-
Uncle Tom's Cabin, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War".
-
Th Kansas Nebraska Act was passed while congressmen brandish weapons and utter death threats in the house chambers, over turned parts of Missouri compromise y allowing two territories to determind wether or not to permit slavery by a population vote.
-
Two fractions struggled for 5 years with outbreaks of bloodshed that killed 56 people. Although both territories aventually ratified anti slavery constitution the violence shocked and troubled the nation.
-
When pro slavery activists attacked and ransacked the town of Lawrence, Knasas which have been frowned by anti slavery to help ensure Kansas will become a free state. Which made it worse and caused the Bleeding Kansas.
-
Dred Scott V. Sanford was a Virgina slave who tried to sue for his freedom court. Where justice found that Dred was a piece of property.
-
John Brown hoped to seize weapons and distibute them to Southern slaves in order to spark a wracking serious of slave upriseing.
-
Abraham Lincoln was elected by a considerable margin in 1860 despiten not being included on many Southern ballets. As a republican his part anti slavery outlook struct fear into many Southerns.
