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Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad was when lots of fugitive slaves were running away from there plantations to try and escape to Canada. Canada does not have slaves so most ran North to try and make their way to freedom. They also used secret messeges to communicat with other people. Some even went to Mexico. -
Missori Comprimise
The Missouri Comprimise made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state.This made an equal amount of free states and slave states. Which lessened the tension between North and South. -
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman led many slaves to Canada about 200 slaves or more. She was born a house slave. She had a big head injury from a weight when she was a child trying to help another slave. She went back to the south 20 times and was called Moses. She got married but never saved her husband because he cheated on her. She also saved her family members. She was the biggest conductor in the Underground Railroad -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner led a rebellion of slaves in Aug 22 1831 at Bellmonts plantation. He gathered 60-70 slaves to fight back and win there freedom. Although afterwards it made slaves lives even worse because Southerners were now scared they would fight back. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 made California a free state, no federal restrictions would be placed on Utha and New Mexico, and most important was the Fugitive Slave Act. It made northerners to take any runaway slaves back down to the south. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was suppose to make southerners and northerners vote for Stephan Douglas as president. But both slave owners and northerners rushed to Kansas to try and make it free or a slave state. Kansas became free but Stephan Douglas was killed. -
Bleeding Kansas
Douglass was wrong they fought each other and in 3 months 200 men were killed. North ended up winning but it was like a minni Civil War. -
Bleeding Kansas
Stephen Douglass wanted to make sure he would become president so he wanted Northerners and Southerners to vote for him. He made the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This act said that people in the territories would decide to choose free or slave state. Both North and South rushed in to Kansas to get it to become there side. Douglass thought southerners would vote because he gave them a chance, and northerners because they knew it would become a free state. -
Election of 1860
Lincolen, Breckinrige, Bell, and Douglas all ran for president. Lincolen won with no southeren vote which made the southerners mad. The southern states seperated themselfs from America and called themselfs the Confedrate states of America. -
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Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave that had 3 owners. One of them took him up into the north for 12 years. He went back to the south after that and sued for his freedom. He lost but his old master bought his family freedom. The case got rid of the Missouri Comprimise which let southerners have slaves in the north and added tension. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Abraham Lincolen wanted to sent supplies to Fort Sumter after the southern states left America. The confederate states took it as an attack and fought the men tring to send supplies to the fort. Lincon ended up giving the fort to the Confederate states, but it was the start of the Civil War.
