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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad(UGRR) consisted of secret trails routes adn hiding It was down in the swamps by Georgia, South and North caroloina and up to Virgina. It ran thru the Appalachian Mountains, up the east coast, up the Mississippi River, and thru 4 great lakes. -
The Missouri Compromise
What you are about to read is how Missouri didn’t become a slave state and how congress wanted it to. Well the issue is should Missouri be a slave state? Well the slaveholders already migrated to Missouri. And congress doesn’t have the right to make the territory a slave state. The south is right because I don’t think they should be slave states. If congress had the right to set new conditions for new states then these new states would not be equal to the old ones. First Missouri gained permiss -
Abolitonist Event
David Walker was born in wilimgton north carolina on1785-1830. he was born free to a free mother but his father was a slave. he wrote a pamphlet called "walkers appeal" urging slaves to turn to violence. this pamphlet angered slave owners down south so they but a price on walkers head, $10,000 alive - $1,000 dead. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
he was a religious man and he was a preacher.. turner and his army killed over 60 plantation owners and family memebers. -
The Compromise of 1850
The key people in the compromise were, Henry Clay, senator John C calhoun, senator Stephen Douglass, president Millard Fillmore. California becomes a free state, salve trade got outlawed in Washingotn D.C . The Texas border dispute is settled. Fugitive slave law took place. Underground railroad. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
stephen douglas introduced it. so he could get more votes and the north would be more powerful. it proclaimed that people in a territory should decide whether slavery should be allowed. -
Bleeding Kansas
In 1856 the violence started. Clashes began on May 21 when a group of southerners, with the support of proslavery fedral marshal, looted newpaper offices and homes in Lawrence, Kansas, a center of freee-soiler activity. This act furioated John Brown, a stern evangelical who believed that he was a chosen instrument of god. He took several New englanders to Pottawatomie Creek. When they arrived they took 5 men out of their beds and slaughtered them with swords in front of their own familys. -
Dred Scott case
Dred belonged to a army sergent from 1830-1842. taken to Illinois and Wisconsin. He decided to sue for his freedom. in 1857 his case reached the court of chief justice Tawne. Tawne stated that scott must remain a slave and as a slave he is someones property, not a citizen of the U.S. He married a slave women ( Harriet Robinson) but he left her. -
The Election of 1860
on march 4, 1861 lincoln took the oath of office. and on dencember 20th 1860 south carolina left the union before lincoln took office! on April 12, 1861 general Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter. as men marched and women waved good bye, they expected a short and glorious war. -
The Attack On Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was located on an island in Charleston Harbor, south carolina. The fort was part of the union. If the fort didnt surrender to general Beauregard, he would form a ring of fire around the fort. Morris and Sullivan island surronded the fort. Confederate forts, Fort Moultrie and Fort Johnson surronded the Entrance of the main ship channel. The confederate president was Jefferson Davis. Federal ships sent supplies to Fort Sumter.
