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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a secret pathway to freedom for slaves. In the Underground Railroad, they used special keywords to confuse the bounty hunters and slave catchers. After the Fugitive Slave Act, slaves had to go to freedom in Canada. -
John Brown
John Brown was an abolitionist who acted against slavery with violence. He had given slaves weapons to do attacks, like on Harpers Ferry, a military base. The day provided is when John Brown was born. After the attack on Harper's Ferry, which had failed, John Brown was captured and hanged in December 3, 1859. -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson had bought the Louisiana territory from Napolean Boneparte for $15,000,000. The purchase expanded the land of the United States to the Rocky Mountains from the Mississippi River. Therefore, it doubled our land.
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Missouri Compromise
Though, Missouri was north of the 36' 30' line (a line created as a result of this compromise), it became a slave state, and Maine became a free state. -
Missouri Compromise
The compromise that debated whether Missouri shouldbe a free state, or a slave state. James Tallmadge, a congressman, had thought of that no more slaves be brought into Missouri. This amendment failed in Senate when Senator William Pinkney had told the Senators that the older states could join without any conditions, while the new ones had to. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner started a rebellion on August 22, 1831 at the Travis plantation in Southampton County,Virginia because he was tired of working all day endlessly. So, gathering 60-70 other slaves, he killed the Travis family and moved on to other plantations to kill more and more whites. 3,000 troops were sent to the rebellion to take care of it. Most of the rebels were put up to execution. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a compromise to make the South happy, as they were about to secede from the Union. Henry Clay, the mastermind behind this compromise, had made before the Missouri Compromise 30 years ago. This compromise led to the end of the 36' 30' line, and established the Fugitive Slave Act. This new act made life difficult for the African Americans. ALL African Americans, slave or not,were transported to the South to be slaves. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act said that the people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether they would allow slavery or not. As a result, the 36'30' line that was made in the Missouri Compromise of 1820 void. -
Bleeding Kansas
When it was agreed in the Kansas-Nebraska Act that Kansas and Nebraska could choose to be a pro-slavery or anti-slavery state, northerners started moving into Kansas to make it free. After the South recieved these news, more Southerners that were armed came into Kansas to make it a pro-slavery state. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott (1799-1858) was a slave who unsuccessfully sued his masters to get freedom. He felt like he needed to be free because he lived in free states for 12 years (though, he was born in a slave state.) While he was in free states, he married a slave. -
Presidental Election of 1860
In the Presidental Election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John Breckinridge, and John Bell all were competing to be president. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge were Democrats, and John Bell was part of the short-lived Constitutional Union. Abraham Lincoln got all votes from the North, while the Democrats got votes from the South. John Bell got all votes from the Border States. In the end, Abraham Lincoln had won the election. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was when Abraham Lincoln was sending supplies to the South, but the South wouldn't let them through. So they opened fire on the North ships and Fort Sumter it's self. After many bombs/guns were fired, the North surrendered to General Boulegard, the South general, and then fought again. Thus, starting the Civil War.
