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Underground Railroad
Isaac T. Hopper, a Quaker, began a system for hiding and aiding runaway slaves. It started the Underground Railroad. Spring was the safest time to escape, so March 20, 1781 is the start. The end was Dec 6, 1865 when the 13th Amendment was passed ending slavery. -
Missouri Compromise
Made to diffuse tension between the North and South. It was to decide whether Missouri would be a freee or a slave state. It had admitted Missouri as a slave state, and Maine was admitted also as a free state to balance out the free and slave states. It also stated that any state South of laditude 36, 30 was slave and anything North would be free in the Loisiana Purchase. -
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William Still's Life
Born a free black man in Indian Mills, New Jersey. He was a very sucessful entrepeneur, author, and important figure on the Eastern Line of the Underground Railroad. He worked at the Philadephia Antislavery Society Offices, and had interviewed every fugitive that came in including his long-lost brother, Peter Still. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
August 27, 1831 a preacher named Nat Turner led a rebellion of 70 slaves in Southampton County Virginia against there slave owners. This caused more harm then good. It caused the South to be on high alert and use more force on their slaves. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay had first brought up the idea of the Compromise of 1850 in Jan 28, 1850. Henry Clay and his fellow senators came up with a compromise to solve all tensions between the North and South. It had admitted CA as a free state, allowed NM and UT to decide for themselves if slavery was aloowed there, abolished slave sale in Waashington DC, and it passed the Fugitve Slave act. It had ended up causing more damage instead of fixing it. Passed while Millard Fillmore was president. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The day Stephen A Douglas introduced the bill. Its a bill that purposed poluular sovereighty to settlers in a territory to decide themselves if slavery would be allowed in the new state. the bill had over turned the Missouri Compromise"s 36, 30 line. Douglas had also purposed this to help is chances in running for presidency. -
Bleeding Kansas
Pro-slavery supportors had looted Lawrence. Bleeding Kansas was a time when violence between free soilers and pro-slaveers were fighting to try and make Kansas a free or slave state. Jown Brown had led free soilers in Kansa. It was a little Civil War caused by popular soverigtny. -
Dred Scott Case Part 2
(continued) because it had kept people from taking their property to other states. When in the constitution it went against private property rights. The ruling was he was still a slave and he never was free. -
Dred Scott Case Part 1
The day of the Supreme Court's deacision. The case was to decide whether Dred Scott who was a slave was free or not. He once lived in free states and territories which it is illegal to own slaves there with his owner. So he had convienced himself that he was a free man because he lived there. The court ended up ruling that because he was black he had no rights so he was still a slave and wasn't even suppose to get a trial and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitution because it... -
Presidential Election of 1860
November 6 was when the election for presidency was held. In the race for president was Abraham Lincoln (Republican), John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), John Bill (Constitution Union), and Stephen A. Douglas (Democrat). To win the election a candiate had to win at least 152 votes. Linclon had won 180, Breckinridge 72, Bell 39, and Douglas had 12 votes. Lincoln won with not a single vote from the South which angered South Carolina into leaving the Union. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Was the day Fort Sumter was fired upon by Confederate forces. After South Carolina seceded from the Union, Abraham Lincoln sent supplies to Fort Sumter which was in the Charleston Harbor. The Confederates wouldn't let the supply ship to enter the harbor, and demanded the fort to be turned over as it was "their property', but the Union refused and the Confederates opened fired thus it was the start of the Civil War. -
The Underground Railroad Records
It is unkown when it was published besides that it was in 1872. William Still wrote this book that contained all the reports, letters interveiws, and many other things he had kept from working in the Underground Railroad.
