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The UGRR
There was no official start date of the underground railroad. Most historians believe that it began a year after out country was born in 1777. Others believe that it was almost as soon as slave trade began in 'the new world'. -
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was first begun by quakers in Pennsylvania, circa 1760. However these facts remain unknown. Until about the 1830s the railroad worked only slightly, freeing only a few slaves every year. When the fugitive slave act began the Railroad took a huge pull towards freeing the slaves and liberating the free blacks in the north. Approxamately 100,000 slaves were freed due to the honorable men and women of the Underground Railroad. -
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William Still
William Still was an abolishionist who interviewed run-away slaves heading through Philidelphia, PA. He later wrote a book in which told the stories of these run-aways. He also worked in close relations with Levi Coffin on The Liberator. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion 2
The later months and years carried fear into the hearts and minds of thousands of slaves and slave owners alike. To send a message to the slaves not to rebel, slave owners would execute thier own slaves and mount thier heads on fences. Fear, horror and death were the only outcomes of the rebellion. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
On August 22nd,1831 a young preacher named Nat Turner led approxamatly 70 slaves in rebellion over thier Virginian slave holders. In the process of 48 hours the group had killed about 57 men, women, and children. The chaos ensued, slaves thought to have been incorperated with the rebellion were tried and then eventually executed if they were found guilty. Nat Turner was also found guilty on all charges and was executed. -
The Compromise of 1850
Finally the Fifth bill said that The nation's capital would not be allowed to sell and or trade slaves. All these bills were put together to create The Compromise of 1850. -
Compromise of 1850
After the war with mexico (1846-1848) five seperate bills were created by the Congress in Washington D.C. The first bill said Texas must surrender it's claim to New Mexico. The Second said California's admission as a free state would be approved. The Third said the new territories would have popular sovereignty and could choose for themselves weather or not to be a slave or free state. The Fourth, and consitered the worse, said the South would get the Fugitive slave act. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Congress has passed a new law stating that the Kansas and Nebraska Terrirories can become a slave or free state. Popular Soverinity, an idea that a government or higher power is run by the population. -
The Summer of Bleeding Kansas
In the spring of 1856, a proslavery sherriff was injured in Lawrence, Kansas. A proslavery men became intoxicated and began a rampage upon the little Kansas town. Fires broke out, and many buildings were destroyed, the people were massacred. -
The Attack on Fort Sumter
The attack began when President Lincoln sent supplies to a union fort surrounded by confederate resistance. P.T.G Beureguard, a confederate general, attacked the fort at April 12, 1861. The Bombardment lasted over twenty four hours before surrender, while the supply ship never entered to area. Now the war had finally begun.