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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was active the entire time that slavery was active. How it worked was that groups of slaves would run away from their plantation and hide in houses of southern abolitionists who had a special symbol in their window. The slaves would be given shelter and food until they took off again on their journey to the north or even to Canada to find freedom from the cruelty of slavery. The most known “conductor” of the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman who always went back to -
Missouri Compromise PART 1
The Missouri Compromise was put into place when Missouri applied for statehood as a slave state. Congress wanted there to be an equal number of slave and free states, So James Tallamadge proposed the Tallamadge amendment saying that no new slave could be brought into the Missouri territory and that all slaves that were already there were to be freed at 25. This amendment was never passed. -
Missouri Compromise PART 2
William Pickney did not like this idea because he said the Congress shouldn’t have the right to decide if it was free or a slave state because it would not be fair to the existing states. The Missouri Compromise was passed on March 3, 1820. The compromise said that Missouri was allowed to be a slave state and Maine joined as a free state.. Also the 36’30’ line was created, the purpose of this line was that everything north of the line was free and everything south of the line was a slave state. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion PART 1
A rebellion started by Nat Turner when he led a group of 60-70 slaves who went around killing slave owners and their families to rebel against slavery. This started on the Travis plantation where Nat Turner was a slave. 3,000 troops were sent out to capture the slaves involved and when they were captured they were tried in court. The rebellion started on August 23, 1831 and lasted until the 26. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion PART 2
Nat Turner was captured and his lawyer, Thomas Gray, wrote a book called The Confessions of Nat Turner. To this day it is not known if this book is accurate or not. The effects of Nat Turner’s Rebellion is that slaves were being treated worse because of the fear that they might start a rebellion on their plantation, and the Black Codes, which are strict laws of what slaves are not allowed to do. -
Compromise of 1850 PART 1
The Compromise of 1850 happened when California applied for statehood as a free state. This became a problem for Congress because a lot of California was below the 36’30’ line and should therefore be a slave state. On January 29, 1850 Henry Clay presented a compromise to congress.To resolve this tension Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, and Stephen Douglas all got together to write a compromise. Thus the Compromise of 1850 was created. -
Compromise of 1850 PART 2
Thus the Compromise of 1850 was created. Under this compromise California joined the union as a free state and slaves could not be traded in the nation’s capitol. The other part of the compromise was that The Fugitive Slave act was issued. -
Compromise of 1850 PART 3
Under this act fugitive slaves had to be captured and returned to the south without a right to a jury, the commissioner in the capture of the the slave would be given five dollars if the fugitive was not sent to the south and ten if they were. This act had the most impact on the country because free African American citizens could be kidnapped and sold into slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act PART 1
Stephen Douglas was a democratic candidate for Illinois who was running for the presidency. He wanted to make a railroad that went from Chicago to west, but to do this he had to make the territories of Kansas and Nebraska states. The south however would not like this because if those territories were to become states they would be free states under the Missouri Compromise which would make more anti-slavery representatives in Congress. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act PART 2
So as a way to make the south on board with the idea, Stephen Douglas introduced the Kansas Nebraska Act which said that the new states would decide by popular sovereignty if they were a free or slave state. This idea was passed in congress and was put into law on May 30, 1854 by Franklin Pierce. -
Bleeding Kansas PART 1
Under the Kansas Nebraska Act, states would have the right to vote to see if they were a free or slave state. People who were part of the Antislavery organization began moving to the new state to make sure that Kansas was not a slave state. While the proslavery supporters began going into the state and voting illegally. -
Bleeding Kansas PART 2
The controversy over whether Kansas was going to allow slavery caused violence between the proslavery supporters and antislavery supporters. On May 21, 1856 southerners in Lawrence Kansas looted the homes and newspapers of the free soilers. After that John Brown led other free soilers in a raid on proslavery supporters in Pottawatomie Creek murdering them and their families. This raid started many other murders that are known as Bleeding Kansas. -
Dred Scott Case PART 1
Dred Scott was a slave who worked on his owners plantation in Missouri. That owner then took Dred out of Missouri into the free territory in Wisconsin and Illinois where he worked for twelve years, because of this Dred went to the Supreme Court to sue for his freedom. He thought that because of going into the free territory for a lengthy period of time it make him a free man. -
Dred Scott Case PART 2
After over a decade, on March 6, 1857, the court decided that any person who had African ancestors would never be an American citizen and couldn’t sue. They also said that the federal government could not prohibit slavery. So Dred did not earn his freedom in the ruling, but the master’s son did eventually buy Dred as well as his wife and set them free. -
The Raid on Harper's Ferry PART 2
Little did he know Robert E. Lee was already alerted of the raid and surrounded the men. Most of Brown’s men were killed and the others surrendered. The ones that surrendered were tried and found guilty of treason. Brown was hanged but before his hanging he left a note saying that the only way to stop slavery was bloodshed. -
The Raid on Harper's Ferry PART 1
It was no secret that John Brown thought that the only way for slavery to end was for people to take violent action to stop it, and he did so through many attacks such as The Raid on Harper’s Ferry. This attack was when Brown led other abolitionist men to the arsenal of Harper’s Ferry to steal firearms and then go fight the pro-slavery supporters in the south. On October 16, 1859 Brown and his men attacked the arsenal. -
Presidential Election of 1860 PART 2
When the voting began there was no surprise to who the states chose, with the north as well as California and Oregon voting for Lincoln. The border states of Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky went to Bell. Stephen Douglas took Missouri and the lower half of New Jersey. While the lower south went to Breckinridge. Although he got no southern votes whatsoever, Lincoln won the presidency and on March 4, 1861 was inaugurated. Showing that the north greatly overpowered the south in congress. -
Preidential Election of 1860 PART 3
This was the start of the south seceding from the union. -
Presidential Election of 1860 PART 1
In the run for president during the Election of 1860 were John Breckinridge, John Bell, Stephen Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln. Each candidate had many different views on how they thought slavery should be dealt with, and from all of the previous controversy between the north and south on the debate against slavery, the majority of the north obviously was gonna chose who was against, and the majority of the south would chose who was for it. -
Thomas Garrett PART 1
Thomas Garrett was an abolitionist in Delaware, Pennsylvania. He was a well known person to fugitives as a place that would shelter them. He was very passionate about helping slaves that had escaped the cruelty of slavery because when he was young he saw his family help a runaway. It was known to the authority that he was helping the fugitives and he was fined 5,400 dollars which bankrupt him. -
Thomas Garrett PART 2
Garrett didn’t stop hiding the runaway slaves even when he was bankrupt because he knew that it was the right thing to do. Thomas helped a total of 2,700 slaves to freedom throughout his life, and died on January 25,1871.
