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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad isn't actually a railroad underground it is actually a network of meeting places, seceret routes, passageways, and safe houses used by slaves escaping to Canada. There were a bunch of people who would help slaves get out of the south. Everyone of these people would use a secret language that would sound like actually railroad language, such as a conductor was a person who transported slaves. -
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Underground Railroad (pt 3)
The runaways would get help from the northerners by being housed or the northerners would tell other conductors that a slave needs help escaping. Sometimes slaves wouldn't get help they would just have to run all the way to Canada by themselves. Unfortunately sometimes the runaways would get caught and get sent back down south or killed. The ultimate reward for escaping would be get to Canada and be free, this was almost every slaves dream. -
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Underground Railroad (pt 2)
These people who helped runways get to Canada tended to be northerners or other runaways. The slaves would create their own language that tended to relate to biblical versus. They would also create songs with hidden messages in them, like the Drinking Gourd. This was a way to spread the secret word on how to escape. Slaves would tend to leave at night and if they were escaping they tended to be single young men, women with no kids, or physical fit slaves. -
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Augugst Washington Bailey was born a slave on a farm in Tuckahow, Maryland. Frederick got sold to a family in Baltimore, Maryland when he was only 9. The family that bought him were the Aulds. When Frederick got there Mrs. Auld wanted to teach him how to read and write. Mr. Auld would not allow that to happen, but Frederick wanted to so bad that he ended up teaching him self how to read by reading Mrs. Auld's books. He then grew into a rebellious young man and upset Mr. Auld. -
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Frederick Douglass pt 3)
He also helped in the anti-slavery movement by public speaking, he told people about the horror of a slave's life. Douglass then gave his previous life away by publishing "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass". With his true identity revealed he fled to Great Britian so he would not be sent back down south. He then returned to the Americas and published the abolitionist paper "The North Star". -
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Frederick Douglass (pt 4)
Douglass had supported John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry and once it has failed people thought Frederick was connected so he fled to Canada. During the Civil War Frederick encouraged people ot allow balcks to enlist in th e army. Douglass fought for many other african american rights throughout his life. -
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Frederick Douglass (pt 2)
He upset Mr.Auld so he sent Frederick to Edward Covey a slave breaker. Frederick had enough of Coey's beatings and fought back one day. Covey sent Frederick back to Mr.Auld and decided no one could break him. Frederick managed to escape with the help of a man that he meet with his job on the ship yard. Frederick choose to live in Bedford, Massachusetts with his wife Anna Murray. He then choose to help on the Underground Railroad as a stationmaster. -
Missouri Compromise (part 2)
. He also argued that if Missouri didn’t make their own rules then the nation would no longer be an equal nation. Also another big factor favored one side, Pinkney’s. There were already slaves in Missouri. Tallmadge’s proposal got passed in the House but got rejected by the Senate. There was only really one way to solve all the argument, and that was by creating a two part compromise. The compromise allowed Missouri to join as a slave and Maine to join as a free state. -
Missouri Compromise (part 3)
They added these two states this way so that the balance between the free stated and the slave states would continue to be equal. The last part of the compromise was that any land in the Louisiana Territory that was south of 36’ 30’ would be a slave state and any land north would become a free state. -
Missouri Compromise
The reading _the Missouri Compromise is ABOUT an argument about whether or not Missouri should have slavery in it, and the main POINTS are James Tallmadge, a northerner, suggested that no more slaves should be brought in Missouri and that the children of slaves should become a free citizen at age 25. Going against that proposal William Pinkney, a southerner, said that Missouri should be able to make their own rules like the other states did. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
On August 22, 1831 Nat Turner led 70 slaves on a rebellion in Southamton, Virginia. His followers and him killed 57 whites, including his own owner, in 48 hours. There are many rumors about why Nat started the rebellion but nobody knows for sure. After the government heard about the revalt they sent 3,000 troops to fight him and his rebellion on. After Nat Turner and his followers were captured they were sent to a trial, where some were found innocent but most were found guilty. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion pt2
Nat Turner him self was found guilty and was hung, Before he was hung he was interveiwed by Thomas Gray. Thomas is accused of manipulating Turner's words when he was documenting the interview. When Gray releashed Turner's interview it scared many slave owners. This caused the owners to act out in violence which meant killing many slaves or whip them trying to put fear into the slaves. Thia only caused slaves to want freedom more than ever. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 solved the issue whether or not California would become a free or a slave state. This compromise also solved many other issues. California wanted to be a free slave because they didn't know if they could trust slaves during the gold rush. Many southerners were angered because half of California layed below the 36' 30' and they thought it should be a slave state. This only started an argument that could solved by the "great compromiser" himself, Henry Clay. -
Compromise of 1850 (pt 2)
His compromise would also solve many issues that our nation was trying solve at the time. These issues were should the new territory we just recovered from Mexico should they allow slavery or just choose for themselve, another issue was that Texas said their border went to Santa Fe. The last issue was that the north was angered that Washington D.C was the biggest slave market. -
Compromise of 1850 (pt 3)
This compromise solved these issues by allowing Texas's land to stretch to Santa Fe and given $10 million to pay the debts they owned to Mexico. It also said that the new territories could choose for themselves whether or not they could allow slavery or not. The compromise also stated that the slave market it Washington would be abolished but Washington could still have slavery. Finnaly the main issue would be solved that California would join as a free slave. -
Compromis of 1850 (pt 4)
The south felt like they were cheated out so they got the Fugitive Slave Act, which stated that any runaway slave would be shipped back down to their owner in the south. It also said that there were no fugitive slave had the right to a jury trial. It made any citizen that knew of a runaway to turn them in, but of course some northerners refused to and only helped runaways get to Canada. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was Stephen Douglas's way to win president, but it didn't work for him.The act was passed by Congress on May 30 1854 and it stated that it would allow the people in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not they would be free or slave states. This outraged northerners and made the southerners happy because it got rid of 36' 30'. Even though the north was angered it was a race to the territories to try to get them to be a slave or free state. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act (pt 2)
The first election to decide whether or not it would be a slave state or free state was carried out by the pro-slavery but they were charged with fraud by the anti-slavery settlers. The pro-slavery held another election, but the ani-slavery rufused to vote and this led to the establishment of two opposing legislatures. Soon after tis violenve began to erupt. Kansas was declared a free state soon before the start of the Civil War. There was never a debate for Nebraska it joined as a free state. -
Bleeding Kansas
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed both proslavery and anislavery believers rushed to the territory to get Kansas to become a free state. Of course violence would soon break out. The first act of violence occured in the spring of 1854 when a pro slavery sheirff was wounded by someone. This drove a group of drunk of poslavery lead and attack that destroyed a town in Lawernce, Kansas. Soon after this John Brown led an attack on a small settlement at Pottawatomie Creek. -
Dred Scott Case
Imagine a slave suing for his freedom. Well that is just what Dred Scott did. Dred Scott was born a slave in Virgina in 1799. Dred was owned by the Blow family and sold to an army doctor. The next 12 years of his life he accompanied his owner in Illinois and Wisconsin both non-slave territories. While Dred was there he married his wife, Harriet Robinson, and when it was time to leave he didn't attempt to stay behind. -
Dred Scott Case (pt 2)
After his owner died, the owner's wife hired Dredd and his family to work for other familys. A short time after working for those people Dred sued for his freedom. The Circuit Court of Missouri ruled in Mrs. Emerson's favor, but Dred appealed and won the second suit. Mrs. Emerson then appealed to the State Supreme Court and they overturned the ruling. After this Mrs. Emerson turned Dred over to John Sanford. -
Dred Scott (pt 3)
Dred was far from giving up, and got an abolitionist lawyer to represent his case in the Supreme Court. During the case the Supreme Court found out that Dred didn't even have the right to be in the court room, because he and other blacks were considered an inferior race. The other thing they found out was that the Missouri Compromise was void. The last thing they settled was that Dred would remain a slave. -
Dred Scott Case (pt 4)
This angered the north and the south because they were unsure who's rights were greater states or federal government? In the end the Blow family gave the Scott family their freedom. This case opened peoples eyes on citizenship. -
Pesidential Election of 1860
The Presidential Election of 1860 was the breaking point of the Union splitting. The reason it was is because you could see the true divide in our nation. The campain was between Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John Breckinridge, and John Bell. Stephen Douglas was a democrat that believed that people should vote themselves for slavery or not. John Breckinridge was a democrat that wanted slavery to spread rapidly. John Bell was for constitutional rights and thinks the people should have slaves. -
Presidential Election of 1860 (pt 2)
Abraham Lincoln was a republican that knew we needed slaves but didn't want it to spread. Abraham ended up winning the election with nothing but northern votes. Lincoln almost won almost every north states' vote. Lincoln won the election with 180 electoral votes when he only needed 152. Soon after Lincoln won the South seceded. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
The Attack on Fort Sumter is the beginning point of the Civil War. After the south seceded Lincoln sent supplies to Fort Sumter. This only angered the South and in the morning of April 12 Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard lead all of his troops to an attack against the supply ships and Fort Sumter. The battle lasted a day and on April 13 Robert Anderson surrendered the fort and luckily nobody was killed. This only began the Civil War.
