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The middle passage was the slave trade from Africa to the U.S. and it went ended before slavery ended. It was awful, they would cram hundreds of slaves in the bottom quarters. There was a lot of disease on the ships and a lot of slaves would not survive the journey. This is one of the lowest points in history for the U.S. -
This was the thirteenth amendment to the United States constitution, which required people with indentured servitude or enslaved must be returned to his or her owner if caught in a free state. This meant that anyone who escaped the south would have to continue his or her journey to Canada which is a place where slavery is completely abolished. This made it that much more difficult for slaves to escape and angered some abolitionists. -
The underground railroad was not a railroad, it was a system of safe houses for slaves to hide in while traveling to the north. They would see a sign that would let them know that it was a safe house, and then they would hide there for the day and then travel on at night. It obviously involved slaves, but also the people helping the enslaved people. This took place in the south, where there were the most slaves. It was a way for people to silently help slaves. -
The Missouri Compromise made Missouri into a slave state and Maine into a free state. Missouri wanted to join all of the slave states, so in 1820 Congress passed the Missouri Compromise that turned Missouri into a slave state. It involved Missouri and Maine. This event really draws the line between the north (free states) and the south (slave states). -
Nat turners rebellion was a gruesome time when Nat Turner had a vision from god. He believed that it was his job to get rid of all the Slave owners in the town. So he gathered Slaves. He gathered Men Women and Children. They went from house to house murdering everyone. They murdered the maids, the slave owners, and the children of the slave owners. It was a gruesome Rebellion that would go down as a tragedy. -
The Compromise of 1850 involved 5 bills. It allowed slavery in Washington DC, but banned the slave trade there, made California a free state, let New Mexico/Utah decide if they would be a free state or not, made new boundaries for texas post-Mexican American war, and made it illegal for people to help escaped slaves. The people involved were Henery Clay and Danial Webster. It impacted history by changing the borders of Texas. This happened to try and prevent war from happening between America. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a novel that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book talks about anti-slavery. It was popular in the 18 hundreds and 19 hundreds and fueled the abolitionist motor. It also helped put in a state of power. -
The event that was bleeding kansas occured when a new state entered the union. This new state was argued over because the south wanted it to be a slave state, but the north wanted it to be a free state. A fight out broke killing 56 people. It was a tragedy. -
The Dred Scott case was a fight for a slaves freedom that would last for a decade. The battle was in courts and was so serious that it ended in the Supreme Court. Dred Scott was born into slavery and was born in Virginia. He and his wife both tried to sue for their freedom but they were refused for a while. They won their freedom in 1850, but their owner Irene wanted to keep them. They were sold away by Irene's new husband and they were freed soon after. They were freed in 1857. -
John Brown leads a small army to start a slave rebellion in the state of Virginia, they were tired of being slaves. This event made the south and north even more divided. The rebellion lasted 36 hours, it started with them collecting hostages, after that, a shoot-out started killing 8 of Johns's men. Quickly after they were captured and hung in December. This impacted history by making the gap between the north and the south rise, they were angry at each other. -
The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 and it was the proclamation that freed all slaves in the rebel states or the north states not in the south seceded states. The proclamation didn't end slavery but it started the process to end it. It impacted history by starting the end of slavery in the United States. It happened around the time of the 3rd year of the Civil War.
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