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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was an association created by Anti-Slavery people and Abolitionists in the hope that they could free the slaves down in the Southern states. In the early years of 1787, the first recorded Abolitionists would begin to plan and create an assotiation to free all black men, women, and children. This would soon grow into a bigger group through the 78 years until 1865 when Abraham Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation. -
The Missouri Compromise
A compromise that was submitted by Henry Clay, was passed in 1820 between the factions of Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery people within the United States Congress. It was an attempt to ease the tension between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people and stated that "everything passed the 36'30" would be Slave states while everything above it would be free, This would cause both factions to have an equal amount of states. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
In 1831, Nat Turner, a religious leader and Baptist, led a rebellion of about 60 or 70 slaves in Southampton, Virginia. Nat Turner's rebellion lasted 48 hours and the rebellious slaves killed at least 60 white men, women, and children on the night of August 21st. This rebellion would last 48 hours, and after those 48 hours were up, Nat, along with 16 other slaves were captured, imprisoned, and executed. Other slaves in the south that had no involvement in the rebellion were punished by whipping -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a compromise created to help the problem with Slavey. It made it so the new territories won from Mexico, California, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana could actually be made into states later on and satisfy both North and South. It also would later on make the fresh new state of California into a free state, remove slave trade from Washington D.C, and introduce the Fugitive Slave Act. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska act created both the states Kansas and Nebraska. But, the settlers that moved into the new land were now able to choose which kind of state it would be after the 36'30 had been repealed in the Dred Scott case and Stephen Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska act had been passed. -
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Bleeding Kansas
A so called 'miniture Civil War' between southern and northern settlers after many disagreements about Kansas being a free or slave state had become violent. -
Bleeding Kansas
After the Kansas-Nebraska act had been passed, settlers from both factions poured into Kansas in attempt to make one side larger than the other. If the North had the majority of the vote, it would be free. And if the South had the majority of votes, the state would be come a slave state. Disagreements and eventually violence broke out against both factions after being unable to agree upon what kind of state it wanted to be. Murders and killings rose up, and a small civil war broke out. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott, a slave, and his wife file a case to sue for their freedom after being given to many other people like they were nothing. The case would start out in the state they were in, but eventually would be taken up by the Supreme Court. When the Supreme court took a look at the case, they had also discussed the 36'30 line, calling it unconstitutional and considered it void. Dred and his wife lost the case, but gained their freedom not too long afterwards. -
John Brown
Abolitionist that used violence against slavery. This man traveled alongside his hildren and followers into an proslavery town and killed five proslavery people there. This would be known to be the Pottawatomie Massacre. He would then later on take control of a federal armory and hold out there until arrested and hanged for his crimes. -
Presidential Election of 1860
On November 6, 1860, four men were chosen as canidates to be the next upcoming president of the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and John Bell for each of the current Political parties. Abraham Lincoln won by just a hair after the voting had ended on Election day, and would soon become the new president in the next year. And his role through that year will become very clear -very- soon. -
Attack on Fort Sumpter
The new president, Abraham Lincoln, had one day decided to send over supplies to a struggling fort over in South Carolina just after the state had seceded from the country. Word got over to the southern president, Jefferson Davis, and he wasn't all that happy to be recieving the supplies. He ordered his french general to take the fort by force. It was a bombardment from all angles, and the fort soon fell to the new Confederacy. This would be the last event before the Civil War begins.
