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The Underground Railroad Part 2
Because March 20th is the first day of spring, and spring was the best time to escape we can say that around March 20, 1787 was when Isaac T. Hopper started. As for our end date, we are using December 6, 1865 becuase that was when the 13th Amendment, which ended slavery, was passed. Now, because Congress has abolished slavery, there is no need for the Underground Railroad. -
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The Underground Railroad Part 1
The Underground Railroad was a large system of pathways use by slaves to escape to the northern states and Canada. The Underground Railroad was run by people called Abolitionist, people who wanted slavery ended immediately. The Underground Railroad used a lot of biblical and actual railroad terminology. It was in use from just about the begining of slavery until the end of the Civil War. In 1787, a Quaker named Isaac T. Hopper started a system of hiding and aiding runaway slaves. -
Missouri Compromise
On March 3, 1820, Congress passed a comprpmise proposed by Representative of New York, James Tallmadge that was under disscussion for over a year in hopes to resolve the porblem of what new land from the Louisiana Purchase would be added as free states and what would be slave states. Missouri would become a slave state and Maine would become a free state. Also, all land north of the 36' 30' line would have to be free. -
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William Still
A black man born free, William Still became an Abolitionist and was a very big part of the Underground Railroad. Because of his efforts, William Still was nicknamed "The Father of the Underground Railroad". As a stationmaster, he helped around 800 slaves escape to the north. Still made sure to interview every escaping slave that he could and even today his notes are some of the most detailed documents on the Underground Railroad. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
On August 22, 1831, an enslaved preacher named Nat Turner, led a rebellion of 70 slaves who killed 57 whites including women and children in around 48 hours in Southampton County, Virginia. Nat Turner started this rebellion because he had hope that it would show the whites the inhumane reality of keeping slaves. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act Part 2
Stephen Douglas came up with this act with two main intensions in mind; he wanted a way to make Chicago a railroad center, but he needed a way for the South to agree to making Kansas and Nebraska states. He also wanted to be Presient. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act Part 1
The Kansas-Nebraska Act is a law brought up by Illinois Senate Stephen Douglas that was supposed to solve the problem of whether or not Kansas and Nebraska would be free states or slave states. The act said that Kansas and Nebraska would use popular sovereignty to decide this issue. In doing this, Congress would e ignoring the Compromise of 1820's 36'30' line rule which said that slavery wouldn't be allowed in any territories above the 36'30' line. -
Bleeding Kansas Part 1
Once the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, both por and anti-slavery settlers rushed into Kansas. When some southerners looted anti-slavery homes and offices in Lawrence, Kansas, the violence erupted. Three days after the raid, Abolitionist John Brown killed five men that were believed to be pro-slavery settlers in front of their families. Soon, the violence spread to our nations capital. -
Bleeding Kansas
Southern Congressman Preston Brooks beat Massachuttes Senator Charles Sumner with a cane two days after Sumner gave a speech that was very much against slavery. -
Dred Scott Case Part 2
The Supreme Court had also decided that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was invalid. In the end, Dred Scott was sold back to his original family where he was able to live one year as a free man before dying. -
Dred Scott Case Part 1
Dred Scott was a black man who was born a slave in 1799. In 1830, he was sold to Dr. John Emerson, a sergeon in the U.S. Army. For 12 years, they traveled aroung free states such as Illinois and Wisconcin. Dred even married while in the north. After 3 years of being back in the south, Dred decied to sue Mrs. Emerson fo rhis freedom, saying that since he had spent so much time in free states, he had become a free citizen. During his trial, the Supreme Court had decided that he was still a slave. -
Presidential Election of 1860
In November of 1860, Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860. He won over the north, not recieving a single southern vote. His competition, Stephen Douglas, John Bell, and John C. Breckenridge, were all not even close to Lincoln's number of votes. Lincoln got somewhere around 180 votes, and about 80 of those votes were from only 3 states. Those 3 states alone got Lincoln more votes than ony of the other candidates recieved. -
Attack on Fort Sumter Part 1
In April of 1861, Fort Sumter was running out of supplies, so President Lincoln contacted South Carolina's Governer to inform him of the incoming supplies. Confederate President Davis ordered General Beauregard to make the fort surrender. Of coarse, the fort didn't and was fired upon for 24 hours, all before the Union Ships arrived. Upon their arrival, however they saw the destruction and went no where near the fort in fear of being fired upon themselves.
