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Underground Rail
The Underground Railroad was neither underground or a railroad. It got its name because it had to be carried out in secret, using darkness or disguise, and because railway terms were used by those involved with system to describe how it worked. Many routes were lines, stopping places were called stations, those who aided along the way were conductors and their charges were known as packages or freight. -
Missouri Compromis of 1820
The Missouri Compromise was deciding if Missouri was to become a free state or a slave state. Missouri wanted to be a slave state because they already had slaves in the state. Jame Tallmadge proposed that no more slave be brought into Missouri, and that children of slaves already there be freed at the age of 25. Pinkney of Maryland argued that states already in the union had joined without any conditions. The issue was resolved by a two-part compromise. -
Nat Turner
In 1831 a slave named Nat Turner led a rebellion in Southhampton County, Virginia. A religious leader and self-styled Baptist minister, Turner and a group of followers killed almost sixty white men, women, and children on the night of August 21. Turner and 16 of his family members were captured and executed, but the incident continued to haunt Southern whites. -
Compromise of 1850
Californa becomes a free state but they were having problems with the unequal amout of people. -
Bleeding Kansas
The events later known as Bleeding Kansas were set into motion by the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, which nullified the Missouri Compromise and instead implemented the concept of popular sovereignty. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave living in the slave state of Missouri. His owner took him to Illinois and then to Minnesota, which were both free states under the Missouri Compromise. Dred Scott and his owner returned to Missouri, and Plaintiff was sold to Sanford. Scott sued Defendant for his freedom, claiming to be a citizen of Missouri. -
The Election of 1860
The final results of the election of 1860 did not necessarily make secession inevitable. Read in a certain light, the outcome provided hope for those who sought to maintain the Union and find a resolution to the sectional crisis. Lincoln, while receiving a majority vote among northerners, did not receive a majority of all the popular votes. -
Fort Sumter
April 12, 1861 Confederate General Beauregard lead troops to Fort Sumter, the fromed a "ring of fire" around the Fort so no one would make it out alive. Ships of the Union were dropping off supplies at the Fort but they had to turn back because they were not warships. They were not ready for an attack from the Confederates at the Fort. They didn't have enough weapons to protect themselves from the Confederates and they were not ready for war. This another thing that triggered the Civil War.
