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The Underground Railroad
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The missouri comprimise
The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territoriesIt prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. Prior to the agreement, the House of Representatives had refused to accept this compromise, and a conference committee was appointed. -
Comprimise of 1850
The Great Comprimiser Henry Clay introduces the compromise of 1850 in the senate.Still the Congress debated the issues well into the summer. Each time Clays commprimise was set forth to vote, it didnt receive a majority. It had five bills to it. Zachary Taylor died of food poisonicng there. His succesor Millard Fillmore was much more interested in compromise. The enviroment for a deal was set. By semptember Clays Compromise became law -
Bleeding Kansas
It saved the Union from terrible that many had feared. People were all to ready to leave the Slavery controversy behind them. Stephen douglas had to try to get the southern votes. He tryed to please the southerners. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 may have been the single most significant event leading to the Civil War.By the early 1850s settlers wanted to move into the area now known as Nebraska.The southern states' representatives in Congress were in no hurry to permit a Nebraska territory because the land lay north of the 36°30' parallel — where slavery had been outlawed by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. -
Dred Scott Case
The case had been brought up by to the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had livedwith his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. Scott argued that his time spent in these locations entitled him to emancipation.The court found that no black, free or slave, could claim U.S. citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom. The dred scott decision made the tensions bewtween north and south even more high. -
Presidential Election of 1860
The central issue of the presidential election of 1860 was bound to be slavery.Battles over the spread of slavery to new territories and states had gripped the United States throughout the 1850s, and were especially intensified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Condfederate batteries opened fire on the fort, which was unable to reply effictevely. Commander Anderson surrounded Fort Sumter, Evacuating the Garrison the following day. It is what pretty much started the civil war.There were only 3 wounded one mortally. When a exploded prematurely when firing a salute during the evacution. -
Harriet Tubaman
Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger."Tubman was born a slave in Maryland's County around 1820.At age five or six, she began to work as a house servant.Seven years later she was sent to work in the fields. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55–65 white people, the highest number of deaths caused by any slave rebellion in the South. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for over two months afterward. -
The Underground Railroad
It was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century black slaves in the United States to escape to the free states. And they tryed to escape to the Canada with the aid of abolitionists. And by the way there were black abolitonists to and escaped slaves were sometimes Abolitionists.
