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Undergound Railroad
For the Undergroun Railroad there is no offical start or end dates, but in 1787 Isacc T.Hopper began a system of helping and hiding runaway slaves, which started the Undergound Railroad. The end of the Underground Railroad was December 6, 1865 because this is when the thirteenth amendment was passed ending slavery. The Underground Railroad was a secret organization of people and places, that aided runaway slaves. -
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Underground Railroad
Most slaves ran away from the Upper South, which included the states Virginia, Maryland,Kentucky, and Missouri. During the Underground Railroad thousands of slaves escaped to Canada. They where helped by a series of operators, conductors, and station masters, which all risked their lives to help those slaves that they thought should be free. -
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Fredrick Douglass
Douglass then left the U.S. and went to Great Britain. He soon came back to the U.S. and published the newspaper "The North Star." Through out the Civil War he kept speaking about what he believed. Thirty years after the end of the civil war Fredrick Dougalss died. -
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Fredrick Douglass
The first date is when Fredrick Douglass was born and the second date is when he died. Fredrick Dougalss was born in Tuckahoe Maryland, where he was a slave. At age 20 Fredrick Douglass escaped his owners. He chose to live in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he lived with his wife, and changed his name to Douglass. Douglass gave speeches on stopping slavery, and became a stationmaster on the underground railroad. In 1845 he published a book called "Narrative in the Life of Fredrick Douglass. -
Compromise of 1820
March third is when the Compromise was established. In the new state of Missouri their was a new question about wether or not it would be free. James Tallmadge proposed that no more slaves could be brought to Missouri, and all children of slaves would be free at age 25. Southeners hated this and said that congress could not start makeing conditions for a territory to become a state. This would make new states unequal to the old ones. The issue was resolved by a two part compromise. -
Compromise of 1820
One part was that all states in the Louisana Territory above the 36 30' would be free states and all states below would be slave states. The second part was Maine would be admiited as a free state. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
On August 22, 1831 an enslaved preacher named Nat Turner led 50 to 60 enslaved rebels in Nat Turner's Rebellion. In this rebellion, in 48 hours, Nat Turner and his rebels killled about 60 plantations owners and their families. They started with Nat Turner's master then continued on with other plantations. On August 23 Turner was captured, arrested, and hung. This rebellion caused enslaved blacks everywhere to be beaten, and killed, because their owners didn't want them to rebel again. -
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Dred Scott Case
The first date is when Dred Scott began to sue for his freedom. The second date is when the Supreme court made its decision. After living in Illinois, and Wisconsin, two free states, Dred Scott sued foe his freedom. He and his owner Mrs.Emerson went to court. His owner had the favor of the court on the the first time but, Dred Scott repealed and won the first time. After this she turned him over to her brother John Sanford. -
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Dred Scott Case
The case Scott vs. Stanford went all the way to the Supreme Court. The first part was wether or not Scott was even a citizen of Missouri. The court determined that the constitution framers did not consider enslaved people as people, so Dred Scott was not free. The second part was wether the Compromise of 1820 was even legal. The constitution says you can not stop a person or group of people from moving their property. Slaves where considered property, so the Compromise was unconstituional. -
The Compromise of 1850
This date is when the Compromise of 1850 was proposed. California wanted to become a free state, which would upset the balence between free and slave states. Henry Clay then tried to come up with a compromise. The first part was california would become a free state. The second part is the land that was won during the Mexican War would be split into territories and they could choose whether they wanted to be free or slave. The third part is no slaves would be sold in D.C. -
The Compromise of 1850
The fourth part is the dispute over Texas's border would be seetled and in return Texas would get 10 million dollers to pay their debt they had with Mexico. Finally, the last part is the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This date is when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed.The Act was created by Stephen Douglass. He was trying to become president, to do this he wanted votes from the south and from the north. To do this his act, said that the territories Kansas and Nebraska would get to choose to be free or slave, repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820.The Kansas-Nebraska Act did the oppisite. Northerners hated it, and it soon lead to Bleeding Kansas -
Bleeding Kansas
This is the day that the the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, causing people to rush into Kansas. Both antislavery and proslavery people wanted Kansas to be free or slave. Soon after they arrived proslavery people held an election for whether Kansas was going to be a free or slave state. Proslavery supporters won, and antialvery supporters immeadiatly said that the election was fraudulent. They did this a few more times back and forth. -
Bleeding Kansas
These tensions caused antislavery supporters, and proslavery supporters to begin a small civil war. In the end antislavery supporters outnumbered proslaver supporters and Kansas became a free state. -
Presidential Election of 1860
This was the official start date of the election. The four candidites where Abraham Lincoln, John Breckenridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas. Abraham Lincoln won 18 1/2 states and 180 electoral votes. John Breckenridge won 11 states and 72 electoral votes. John Bell won 3 states and 39 electoral votes. Finally, Stephen Douglas won 1 1/2 and 12 electoral votes. The fact that Abraham Lincoln won the election without any southern votes angered southeners causing North Carolina to secede. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
This date is when the attack on Fort Sumter began. The Union refused to give up Fort Sumter, a fort located in the Charleston harbor. This harbor was owned by the Confederate States of America. Hostileness was high when the Union president Abraham Lincoln told the South Carolina govenor tat he was sending supplies to Fort Sumter. Soon after that confederate president Davis orderd Fort Sumter to surrender. Major Robert Anderson, the leader of the fort, refused. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
The supply ships where just out of the harbor but did not dare go into it. In 24 hours Fort Sumter surrendered.
