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Slavery And The Events Leading Up To The Civil War

  • The Underground Railroad

    The Underground Railroad
    The Underground Railroad was a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada.They started to help slaves run away close to the 18th centurary. There was one very known person during the underground railroad and her name was Harriet Tubman she was very known because she had made 19 trips back and forth to the south to try to bring many others to freedom. There was over 300 slaves that they ruffley estimated that she had brought to saftey during the time that
  • The UnderGround Railroad

    The UnderGround Railroad
    she had brought to freedom during the trips that she had made back and forth to the south.They had a society of quakers that had made a purpose to help get some of the slaves to freedom. they also had to go through several dangers and many hills and rivers to get to freedom during this time. They tried to stay in the rivers so that they dogs would not be able to track there scent
  • The Underground Railroad

    The Underground Railroad
    Isaac T. Hopper, a Quaker, began a system for hiding and aiding runaway slaves in 1787. This is what started the Underground Railroad. March 20th is the first day of spring, and spring was the safest time to of the year to escape, therefore March 20, 1787 will be the start date. The end date, December 6, 1865 was when the 13th Amendment ending slavery was passed, thus ending the need to escape on the Underground Railroad.
  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    There are a lot of things that happened during the Missouri Compromise they have a lot of outcomes that happened during the Missouri Compromise. There are things that I am going to tell you about that happened during the Missouri Compromise and what the outcomes have come to bring during the Missouri Compromise. The North and the South’s had different position that they played during the Missouri compromise.
  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    The North and The South had a lot to do with Missouri Compromise and what there union did to help with the Missouri Compromise. When the Missouri Compromise first happened the slaveholders had already migrated into the Missouri area. The South then decided that the congress would be able to do anything with the statehood as in to be able to admit it and deny the statehood.
  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    The fact that congress was able to do anything with the statehood he was still not allowed to decide if a territory was able to come a statehood or not. The north had a complete different idea against the Missouri becoming a state. The Southern state had to argue that any state that had been put into the union as a joined into the union that they had joined without any conditions so why did they have to join with conditions unlike all the other states.
  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    They had Louisiana Territory lying north of the 36’30 latitude would be the free state. They had to form a two-part compromise to be able to revise the problem between the north and the south argument. The way they did the two-part compromise was that Missouri had gained admission to the Union to be the slave state.
  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    The second part was that Maine had admitted to statehood and which had to give the senate to be able to maintain the balance between slave and the free state. The way they helped with that is they have each state 12 free states and 12 slave states so that they had equal votes and one state would not win every time because they had more than the other state did to vote
  • Responce to a Slave Rebellion- Nat Turner's Rebellion

    Responce to a Slave Rebellion- Nat Turner's Rebellion
    would be reimbursed with a new slave that would replace there old slaves. There were tons of storys that had spread after the rebellion some praising slaves that were not involved in the rebellion others saying that the ones that did join Nat Turners Rebellion that they had been threated into joining Nat Turners Rebellion. The plantation owners were afraid that the same thing might happened to them when the new rebellion starts.One esitmate about the slaves had said about 200 slaves were murdere
  • Responce to A slave Rebellion-Nat Turner's Rebillion

    Responce to A slave Rebellion-Nat Turner's Rebillion
    Nat Turner was a intelligent and religious man he also had alot of mystery that someone who had claimed to have seen visions.Nat turner was a slave rebellion that had taken place in Viginia 1831. Nat turner was jailed tried in court, found guilty ad also executed by hanging, Nat Turners lawyer had made a book called the Confessions of Nat Turner. The courts then had to make different decision they had to decided that the plantation owners that had lost there slaves would be paid back or
  • The Compromise of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850
    The then inforced the fugitive law of slavery. This is the law that when all run away slaves than would leave had to be returned to the plantation owers. The free blacks in North were able to be captured and sent to the South. The whites had to report any known runaway slaves that had been able to get away. If they were not returned they would either be fined or sent to jail. The underground railroad became very popular after the fugitive slave law was passed.
  • The Compromise of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850
    The compromise of 185 0 was when the there where more free states than slave states whe the California joins as a free state. The U.S. senate has more anti slavery tat the has pro slavery senates. The U.S. ad gained land from the Mexican American war when the get to decided if they will have slaves or not. The slave had trade outlawed in washington D.C. They are still allowing slave in D.C.They were then able to dispute the Texas Border.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    The first act of the violence in Lawrence Kansas was started by Proslavery supporters.They had a action that the proslavery looters stirred a swift responce fro connecticut born and ohio raised John Brown a stern vangelical who believed the he was choosen instrument of god. They also had a violence of Lawerence and brown go them given the name bleeding Kansas.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    The date i choose was 1854 because this is the time that the Kansas Nebraska Act had started to help the Missouri Compromise This is also when the tension in Kanas began also when Kanas Nebrask had became a loose. They had people that pretected the territory which they were called the free soliers. They helped keep the land free of slavery, The proslavery settlers from Missouri had moved into Kansas so that they could vote illegally in the territory hoping Kansas would become a slave state.
  • Fort Sumeter

    Fort Sumeter
    I choose the date April 12 for fort sumeter because it was the arrivialdate when they had arrived. Fort summeter was the even that started the civil war. They had been moving around so that the would be able to stop them from attacking there fort it was a hard time and they had other place's that could block the swamps from them being able to row into fort sumeter.
  • The Election of 1860

    The Election of 1860
    When the Election of 1860 first happened they had divided the north and the south into two different parts. The south was divided as factions and the north was divided by the democratic party. They had two different people that were running for the election when they were running they were trying to run the constitution.http://www.filsonhistorical.org/collections-and-exhibits/research-tools/lincoln's-kentucky/the-civil-war/the-election-of-1860.aspx