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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was not a railroad but it was a secret network of pathways and people helping slaves ecape from the sounth into the northern states and Canada. There is not an official start date of the UGRR, but it is known that it was most used during the ten years before the Civil War after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. All types of people worked the UGRR. Black men and women, and white men and women both helped get slaves north. The UGRR ended after the Civil War ended in 1865. -
Missouri Compromise
History.comIn 1820, there was a decision to make the decision was wether Missouri would become a slave state or a free state. Finally, in March of 1820 Henery Clay established the Missouri Compromise. The compromise made Missouri a slave state, but the 36'30' latitude line was made saying any area north of the line was free and any area south was slave area. The compromise also made Maine a free state when it was passed on March 3,1820. -
William Still
William Still was a free black man that was born in New Jerey on October 21, 1821. William was an entrepreneur and an important man on the eastern side of the UGRR. William worked in the Philadelphia Antislavery Sociey Offices, and he also voulenteered for the Union Army in 1865. He is known for keppeing records of all the slaves he helped and interviewed, helpping end segregation, starting the Berean Presbyterian Church, and he started a black owned savings loan. William Still died in 1902. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
The day of August 22, 1813 was the day Nat Turner led 70 slaves in a rebellion in South Hampton County Virginia. The rebelling slaves went from plantation to plantation killing slave masters and their families. In just 48 hours the rebelling slaves killed 57 white people. As a result of the rebellion, slave owners were scared so they brutaly punished the slaves, several were killed to scare other slaves. Slaves also lost several of their lives such as going to church and reading and writing. -
Compromise of 1850
In 1848 California made a state constitution and applied for statehood. California wanted to be a free state, which the north like and the south did not. At this time, there was a lot of tension between the north and south. Henry Clay proposed the Compromise of 1850 making California a free state, and the Fugitive Slave Act was passesd. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
In 1854 Stephen Douglas need to gain support form southerners to become president. He soultion was the Kansas-Nebraska Act that said that popular soverntiy would decide in the Kansas and Nebraska territories on whether it would be free so slave. He wanted Kansas and Nebraska to become states as soon as possible because of the Transcontinental Railroad and by letting popular soverntiy decide whether the territory would be slave or free, and this made several people go there which caused violence. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas happened when pro and anti slavery supporters fled to Kansas to try to make Kansas a slave or free state. While both groups were there, there was a lot of violence. One of the events was the Pottawatomie Massacre that was done by John Brown and his sons. They took five men out of their cabins and hacked them to death. Many more events like this took place during Bleeding Kansas. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott's owner named Dr. Emerson took him to the free territories of Illinois and Wisconsin. He and Dr. Emerson moved back to Missouri shortly before the doctor died, and the doctor gave Dred to his wife. Dred sued Mrs. Emerson for he and his families freedom. The case started in regular court and after was passed to Supreme Court. The Supreme Court dedided Dred and no blacks had didn't have a voice in court and the Missouri Compromise was outlawed. -
Election of 1860
The presidential election of 1860 had four canidates by the names of Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John Bell, and John Beckenridge. Lincoln had carried the most states over all of the other candidates, Beckenridge had the second most, the Bell, and lastly Douglas carried the least. Abraham Lincoln, a republican, won the election on November 6, 1860 with 180 electoral votes from the 18 states he carried which was over the number needed to win. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was running low on supplies and the troops there were starving. Abraham Lincoln wront a letter to the governor of South Carloina telling him that he was sending supplies to the fort. The governor sent Gerneral P.G.T. Beauregard to try to make the for surrender.The fort refused to surrender and Beauregard's troops fired on the fort, not allowing the supply ships to enter, and taking over the fort. This was the start of the Civil War.
