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The Underground Railroad
Slaves where brought to the new world in the 1500's. They endured a 4 month journey aross the Atlantic Ocean. A major crop in Kentucky,and Virginia and upper south was tobacco. Also their where many other jobs on a plantations for slaves to do like take care and harvest rice, suger, and cotton. If they where not doing this things right they go whiped or sold to another plantation. You didnt want to get sold if you a have a family because their is a very small chance you will ever see them again. -
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Underground Railroad (3)
disguises to run away during the day. The most common people to run away are younger men. The biggest thing they feat when they where running away was bounty hunters. Most slaves ran away from the upper south like Maryland, Virgina, Kentucky. And their where many abolitionists to help you escape. Some famous ones are Levi Coffmin and William Stll. If one of this abolitionists got caught helping a slave they could get a 1000 dollar fine and 6 months in prison. -
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Underground Railroad (2)
again. Plantation owners hired overseers to make sure you are working or they can do those cruel things to you. Slaves lived in cabins, each cabin has two rooms, leaky roofs, drafty walls, and dirty floors. So it was very hard for them to keep warm durig the winter. When slaves wanted to ecape some used the north star to lead them to canada. Some slaves stowd away on boats, trains, wagons, or just on foot. And some used clever disguises to sneak away during the day. The most comon people to run -
David Walker
David Walker was born free, of a free mother and a slave father. He left the south about when he was 30 because if he stayed their he was going to die. In 1826 David Walker settled in Boaton, Mass,. That where he became the agent for Freedom's Journal.David Walker published an antislavery article in September 1828 with there others. It was called the Walker's Appeal.It said have cruel behavior towards blacks would change. -
Missouri Compromise of 1820 (2)
Tallmadge amendment passed in the house but was rejected by the Senate. The issue was resolcved by the two-part compromise. Missouri was gave admission to the Union as a slave state and Louisiana Territory lying north of 36' 30' north latitude would be free. Second, Main was admitted to the statehood, which that keep the balance between slave states and free states. -
Missouri Compromise of 1820
When the United States got Missouri their was a question. Should slavery be allowed in the new state of Missouri? But some southern slave holders already moved into Missouri. When the bill for admission came to the house a man named James Tallmadge of New York said "no more slaves would be brought into Missouri, and children of slaves already there be freed at the age of 25. Southerners said that congress did not have the right to make conditions for a territory to become a state. -
Nat's Turners Rebellion
This all started with slavery and Nat Turner. Nat was a very smart and religiuos man. Nat Turner was the leader of the of a slave rebellion. It took place in ampton county virgina, August 22, 1831. Nat lead about 60 to 70 slaves and they killed the entire Travis family and about 60 other plantation owners and family members. The reson they did this is because of slavery Nat Turner and other slaves got angery with the slave owners. -
The Comprimise of 1850
Again this comprimise is about slavery. This was a comprimise that saved the counrty. This happened because California wanted to become a state. If they wanted to become a state they would have to choose whether they would be a slave or a free state. The country had the same slave and the same free so California would throw of he balance, and that would make people angry. -
The Compromise of 1850
would throw off the balance and make pro-slave or anti-salve supporter mad depending on what they choose. Their were two men Henry Clay he was seventy-three and he was from the south, sick and weak and he was trying to find a answer to the compromise and there was another man Senator John C. Calhoun from -
The Compromise of 1850
Calhoun was from the south. He was dying of tuberculosis. He did not care about the compromise and just wanted California to be a slave state. And during the debate Calhoub died so did the president Millard Fillmore. Henry Clay gave more than seventy speeches. The Compromise had five parts. First Cali was aloud to be a free state. Second, it decided what to do with the land they won from the Mexican War. -
The Compromise 1850
with the land from the Mexixan War. Then Washington, D.C., slave trade was no longer allowed. Whitch D.C. was a big slave trading place. Then the fugitive slave act this act make every run away slave and free african american scared to be sent back to the south. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act
This allowed new territorises to decide if they would like to be slave or non slave. That went against the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Which that made al the northerners mad. When the act was made pro and anti-slavery supporters flooded in to Kanasa to try to affect the out come of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Violence soon erupted and anit slavery supporters where let by John Brown. The territory earned is nickname "Bleeding Kansas". And on January 29, 1861 just before the Civil War, Kansas was -
Bleeding Kansas
Spring of 1856, attack at Lawrence, started Bleeding Kansas. Pro slavery people attacked becauce of free and slave states. Frankin Pierce that was pro slavery sent Federal troops to stop the violence. Kansas was added a free state just before the start of the Civil War. -
Dred Scott Case
A african american man that was born in Virgina as a slave in 1799. They owners moved West to Missouri in 1830 and they sold Dred to a army doctor stationed just south of the city. Dred go married to Harriet Robinson, another slave of the doctors. The doctor died the next year. The next three years he attempeted to sue for is freedom. -
Dred Scott Case
sue for his freedom. The Circuit Court of Missouri ruled in Mrs. Emersom's favor the first time. Dred appealled and won the second suit. But Dred had the right to be heard before the court. The first aspect of the Scott vs. Sanford case of 1857. Dred scott lost his final battle. -
Election of 1860
President Abraham Licoln was elected on this date. He won his presidensy without 1 southern voting for him. He had 180 eolectoral votes. That where all northern votes. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
When the South Carolina seceded, Lincoln sent supplies to Fort Sumter because they were starving. Fort Sumter is located on a island in the Charleston Harber. Union ships traveled by the Main Ship Channel but they had to get passed confederate forts like Fort Moultrie and Fort Johnson. Which that is a sucide mission.
