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Steven Langworthy
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad is for slaves to escape to the north for freedom. It was a secret network of people, places, and routes in the North that led slaves to freedom in large cities, black communities, and Canada. Some slaves ran through the water because it was a good road because it covered up their scent so slave bounty hunters and their dogs wouldn’t find them. Some slaves lead revolts, burnt crops, and even poisoned their masters to escape to freedom. -
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The Underground Railroad
When traveling the Underground Railroad runaways would stow away on boats, trains, or wagons. They would give names, symbols or phrases used on the Underground Railroad. Passenger, freight, cargo, baggage, and fugitive are the names given to the runaway slaves. The River Jordan is the Ohio River and the runaway slaves ran it to go north. “A friend with friends” signaled a conductor with fugitives. “Load of Potatoes” means that there are fugitives on a wagon arriving. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 is about if Missouri should be a slave state or not and how we got Maine for Missouri. On March 3, 1820 congress passed the Compromise into law. The north didn’t want slaves but the south did and they already had slaves brought into Missouri. Tallmadge suggested no new slaves be brought into the Missouri territory and also slaves there should be freed when they turn 25 but it was rejected. -
Missouri Compromise
Portions of the Louisiana Territory lying north of 36’30’ north latitude would be free. Maine joins as a free state and Missouri joins as a slave state. The north and south had twenty-four states all together. They have twelve states each which kept them balanced. The north gained a free state of Maine. The north gained a very large amount of free territory. The thing is that the north doesn’t like that slave states and territories will still be allowed and that Missouri became a slave state. -
Missouri Compromise
For the south on the other hand, Missouri became a state. This means more future slave territories. They want more slave states than there are free slave states.They don’t like that they get as much slave territory as there are free territories and they don’t like that Maine is a free state. The Missouri Compromise kept the peace between the people and states by the north and the south getting a state. James Monroe is the president who signed the Missouri Compromise that Henry Clay wrote. -
Nat Turners Rebellion pt. 2
Because of him, the blacks that were slaves or freed got treated differently. If a slave was suspicious he or she would have been beaten or killed. They are never allowed to vote. They can’t serve on a jury. Blacks weren’t allowed to meet up in groups more than five. The blacks weren’t allowed to own guns, buy or sell goods, and they can’t speak to another black or they would be beaten. In the end of the rebellion, it didn’t turn out good for any of the blacks. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
The Nat Turner’s Rebellion was led by Nat Turner and sixty to seventy other me from August 22 to August 23, 1831 in Virginia. Nat Turner was a preacher, he led the rebellion, he was religious, treated bad, and Nat was hung. It was a forty eight hour rebellion. The rebellion started on the Travis farm where they killed the whole Travis family. They killed sixty plantation owners and their family. The whites had three thousand virginian militias go after Turner and his sixty to seventy men, talk a -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was good for both the north and the south. It started out when the north wanted California to be a free state but the south wanted California to be a slave state. The outcome was California joined the union as a free state. The Compromise of 1850 allowed citizens in New Mexico and Utah territories to determine for themselves the legal status of slavery. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise abolished the sale of enslaved people, but not slavery itself, in Washington, D.C. It also passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which required all citizens to assist in the return of enslaved persons who had escaped from their owners and which denied jury trials to runaways. The Compromise of 1850 was introduced on January 29, 1850. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act proclaimed that the people in a territory should decide whether slavery would be allowed there.The law was passed on May 30, 1854 but after it was signed into office, violence broke out in Kansas between the people on the pro-slavery and the people on the anti-slavery side. The famous Senator, Stephen Douglas, wanted Chicago to benefit from the development of the West. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The sooner the territories of Kansas and Nebraska became states, the sooner railroads could be built across them to link Chicago with the West. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 says that Kansas and Nebraska would become free states. The North would then become still more powerful, and southerners would see Douglas as an enemy. So Basically what Douglas was saying, is that the nation should forget the boundary of 36’30’ line. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Douglas knew that the Kansas-Nebraska Act would make southerners happy because Kansas and Nebraska might become a slave state. Northerners were outraged by the bill. Popular sovereignty is when people choose if they want to be free of not. Free soilers move into the Bleeding Kansas and one is named John Brown. John Brown ends up holding action for a lot of riots. At that time Franklin Pierce was president and he signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act into law. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas started on May 21, 1856. It was between proslavery and antislavery.Tensions rose when the Kansas-Nebraska bill was signed into law. The new settlers were called free soilers and they were committed to making the territories free. Anti-slavery settlers from New England moved to Kansas to try to fight against the Slave Power. -
Bleeding Kansas
The first act of violence was in Lawrence Kansas and was started by proslavery supports. John Brown led an attack near Pottawatomie Creek killing five proslavery men. Bleeding Kansas was gruesome. Over two-hundred people died during the war. -
Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott Case was a to see if Dred Scott and his wife should be freed. Dred Scott was a slave whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri to free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin and back to Missouri. On March 6, 1857, the court decided that all people of African ancestry- slaves as well as those who were free- could never become citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court. -
Dred Scott Case
The legislation restricted slavery in certain territories. Peter Blow’s sons, childhood friends of Scott, helped pay Scott’s legal fees through the years. He purchased Scott and his wife and set them free. After going through everything he went through, he dies nine months later. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
On October 16, 1859, John Brown attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. With Brown were twenty-two men, including two African Americans and two of his sons. Brown brought along a wagon full of guns for the slaves he thought would join him. Brown and his followers hoped to seize the weapons in the arsenal and give them to enslaved people. Robert E. Lee heard about the raid and set troops out to fight his men. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
The first one to die on John Brown’s team was a slave and when he died, someone cut of his ears for souvenirs. Robert E. Lee killed half of Brown’s men, including two of his sons, until the rest surrendered .Convicted of treason against the state of Virginia, John Brown was sentenced to be hung by the neck. Southerners denounced him as a terrorist and announced they would not accept leadership by Republicans, who were opposed to the slavery system. On December 2, 1859, Brown was executed. -
Abolitionist Movement
John Brown was put to death on December 2, 1859 because he used violence to try to stop slavery. He lead a raid at the military arsenal of Harpers Ferry. Brown fought those who supported slavery in Lawrence Kansas. He commanded forces at the Battle of Black Jack and the Battle of Osawatomie. He led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas. He played a major role in the start of the Civil War. Brown and his followers killed five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie. -
Presidential Election of 1860
He was ok with slavery and supported popular sovereignty. John Breckinridge had the south, Delaware, and Maryland voting for him. He was committed to a policy of the spreading of slavery. John Brown was the only part of the constitutional union. He had Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee voting for him. He was a moderate slaveholder. -
Presidential Election of 1860
The Presidential Election of 1860 was about who would become president. It happened on November 6, 1860. Abraham Lincoln was the only republican. He had all of the northern states, California, and Oregon voting for him. He was moderate about slavery. He liked slavery but he didn’t want to it to spread into the north. Both Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge were democrats. Stephen Douglas had Missouri and southern New Jersey voting for him.
