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Underground Railroad
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Aboltionists, free blacks, and former slaves worked and started the Underground railroad. Some of the famous people who helped on the Underground railroad were Harriet Tubman, Thomas Garett, and Harriet Beecher stowe. They helped runaway/fugitive slaves escape from slavery and get safely to freedom (Canada). The Underground Railroad consisted of many different routes that went through fourteen different northern states. All the routes ended in Canada. -
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Underground Railroad Part 2
The Underground Railroad was not underground and it was not a real railroad, but it operated like a real railroad. The people helping on the Underground Railroad would use codes and phrases that would normally be used on a real railroad but they changed the meanings of the words and gave them defintions for there personal use. Which I think is very clever. The Underground railroad helped many slaves to safety and freedom. -
Thomas Garret
Thomas Garret was a stationmaster on the underground railroad. He helped slaves escape to freedom. When Thomas was little his family hid slaves in the family barn. That inspired Thomas to help slaves escape to freedom when he got older. Thomas worked on the underground railroad for about 40 years and helped about 2,700 slaves to freedom. Garret was fined and went bankrupt for helping slaves escape to freedom. Garret continued helping slaves until he died. -
Missouri Compromise / Compromise of 1820
In 1820 the United States congress came up with a compromise that admitted Missouri into the union as a slave state and admitted Maine into the union as a free state. The compromise also established the 36',30 line. The 36',30 line was an imaginary line that went through Louisana territory, any state or territory that was north of the line was considered free states and any state or territory below the line was considered not free. The compromise was mainly to try to keep peace and avoid riots. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
On August 22nd, 1831 in South Hampton County, Virigina, Nat Turner and 70 slaves conspired a plan to rebel against whites in an attempt to end slavery.They started on the Travis plantantion where Nat was a slave and then went from plantation to plantation killing whites including woman and children. By the time they were stopped they had killed about 57 whites including woman and children. As a result of their actions the whites rebelled back and started to kill any slave that was there to kill. -
Nat Turners Rebellion: Part 2
The slaves that started the rebellion were tried in court. Some were found innocent and sent back to work. Others were found guilty and executed. The rebellion not only affected slaves but it affected free blacks as well. The laws for blacks became more strict and later became known as the black codes. Overall, Nat Turners rebellion only made things worse for not only slaves but all blacks in general. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was made up of five parts, the fugitive slave act was one part. Millard Fillmore promoted the compromise and Henry Clay introduced it. It was an agreement between northren and southren states. The purpose of the compromise was to end disputes over the expansion of slavery to the western terriotores. The Compromise of 1850 enraged the north and south. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas was the author of the Kansas Nebraska Act. Douglas wanted to run for president and he wanted to gain support from southreners and northreners so he came up with Kansas Nebraska Act. The act said the people of a territory decide if slavery was allowed or not in their territory (popular sovereignty). The southreners and northreners both hated it. -
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown and a group of new englanders went to Pottawatomie Creek and killed five men. That sparked a summer of murderous raids and counterraids throughout Kansas. That summer became known as Bleeding Kansas. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave who liked his owner then his owner died. He hated his new owner and sued for his freedom. Scott went against John Sanford. The judge of the supreme court, Roger B. Taney made the final ruling that Scott couldn't be free because he was black slave therefore he didnt have a right to trail and he was considered property. Dred was able to be free a couple years later. -
Presidential Election of 1860
Abraham Licoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas were all running for president. Lincoln was against the spreading of slavery and he won without one southren vote. The southren states weren't happy and would secede from the union. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was the cause of tension between the union and confederacy. The confederates shot Fort Sumter for 33 hours demanding the surrender of the fort. The Fort ended up surrendering.
