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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. -
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The Underground Railroad pt. 2
The Underground Railroad were secret routes that slaves would take to get to freedom. These routes led from the upper south through the north then to Canada. Some of the routes slaves took were swamps, applacation mountains, along the Mississippi River, and by boat.The escape network was not literally underground or a railroad. -
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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. -
John Brown
John Brown was a white American abolitionist. He was a man of action. He was born into a deeply religious family in Torrington, connecticut, in 1800.He led 21 men on a rain oof the federal arsenal at Harpers Fairy, Virginia. Fredrick Douglas met John Brown for the first time in Springfield, Massachusetts.The following year, for punishment for another attack, he went ta a proslavery town and brutally killed five of its settlers. -
John Brown
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The Missouri Compromise
Missouri CompromiseThe Missouri Compromise was when the territory of Missouri applied for admission at Statehood. The Missouri Compromise established the 2 Part Compromise. James Monroe was the president during the Missouri Compromise. Missouri was a slave state because Missouri gained admission to the union as a slave state. -
Missouri Compromise pt. 2
When the territory of Missouri became part of the U.S., the congress and the nation were asked a question which was, should slavery be allowed in the new state of Missouri? They wanted no more slaves in the state of Missouri because the bill of admission came before the house. They also said congress did not have the right to make the ruled for a territory to become a state. The problem was resolved by a two-part-compromise. -
Missouri Compromise pt. 3
First,They came up with a reasonable Compromise and the Louisianna Territory lying north of the 36' 30' line northe would be free. Second, Maine was simultaneously admitted to statehood, whih enabled the Senate to maintain the balance between slave and free states. -
Response to a Slave Rebellion - Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turners Rebellion was a slave Rebellion that took place in virginia. led by Nat Turner .He was a slave that went to court against his owners. There 57 whites and about 100 blacks that were killed. The state executed 56 slaves accused of being part of the rebellion. Across the South, state legislatures passed new laws prohibiting education of slaves and free blacks. The rebellion was put down within a few days. -
Response to a Slave Rebellion - Nat Turners Rebellion
The state legislature of Virginia considered abolishing slavery, but in a close vote decided to retain slavery and to support a repressive policy against black people, slave and free.Turner took this to be the sign he had been promised and gave his plan to the four men he trusted the most, Henry, Hark, Nelson, and Sam. They decided to hold iton the 4th of July and began planning a strategy. However, they had to wait for the action because Turner became ill. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave who lived in a free state for 12 years with his family. One day his owner decided to move him back to the slave states. A little bit after they got back his owner died now him and his family now belong to the wife. For 3 years the wife decided to send him and his family to other houses to work. Dred and his family thought that they should get their freedom because they lived in a free state for 12 years so they took the wife to court. After losing twice he decided to give -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills passed in the United States in September 1850. The south wanted to expand slavery into a piece of land west to Texas. Henry Clay which was the Great Compromiser proposed the Compromise. The Compromise of 1850 was designed to balance the interests of the two sections, north and soutt. They established that all slaves must be returned to there owners. Henry Clay was one of the compromisers. -
The compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 started when California wanted to become a state. They didn’t want there to be more free states than slave states because that wouldn’t be fair for the south. That’s how that came up with the Compromise of 1850. This Compromise had 5 parts, the first part sates that California was aloud to become a free states, the second part is the land that was won in the Mexican war was split in into territories that people could vote if slavery was aloud there, -
Compromise of 1850
California joined the union because they were scared that the slaves would take the gold. Danial Webster was also involved in the Compromise of 1850 -
Bleeding Kansas
When the Kansas-Nebraska act was passed people from all over the country went into Kansas and Nebraska to vote whether they would be free or slave states. The north and south were both at war because of this. The first act of violence was in Lawrence Kansas and it started by pro slavery supporters. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act happened when Kansas and Nebraska were becoming states. The south thought that people should vote if Kansas or Nebraska should be free or slaves states. The north got very upset because they were afraid that they would become slave states. Congress likes this idea so that’s what happened. -
Presidential Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was when 4 canadates 2 for the south and 2 for the north competed to be president. The 2 canadates for the south were John Bell and John Breckenridge. The 2 canadates for the north were Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Abraham Lincoln won the election. -
Attack at Fort Sumter
The Attack on Fort Sumter began when Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 because no one in the south voted for him so therefore they were mad. They thought if they could join the country they could leave them just as easy to so that’s just what they did. One day Abraham Lincoln sent cargo ships down to fort sumter not realizing they were enemy forts surrounding it. As the cargo ships the gun batteries of the enemy forts surrounded it and they decided not to go in. This is when the War start
