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Underground Railroad #2
The UndergroundRailroad was an key system of People moving slaves without pro slavey members knowing anything about shipping the slaves to free canada until it was safe to come back. -
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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a series of paths lesding from the deep south to the north and canada this movement was started up by the addition of new laws concerning slaves such as the fugitive slave act. It was created by Abolitionists or people who were opposed to slavery. The underground railroad was considerd to go into effect in march 20th 1787 and was offically ended in december 6th 1865 when slavery ended. -
Missouri Compromise
Congress , on March the third wished to make an definition to seperate the area debated over pro or con slavery rules to limit further discussion. In DC congress decided that in the louisiana purchase all states below the 36' 30' line would allow slavery and all the future states above that line with the sole exeption of missouri would be free states. -
William Still was born
William still was born an free black in october 7th 1821 -
Nat turners rebellion
Nat turner was an enslaved preacher gathered a group of rebellious slaves. this group went and killed or attacked 57 slave owners and their families. This caused much tension between white slave owners and slaves this happened in August 22 1831 in southhamton virginia area. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was an agreement made between the north and south made due to the fact that california wanted to become an state this compromise entailed the fugitive slave act being passed, california becoming an free state, washington dc being banned from the slave trade, and lastly the conqered territories would would be decided free or slave by popular sovreinty. and and after much debate it was passed into law. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Stephen douglas , a polotician wanted to become president but in order to do so he had to make the north and south very happy with him so he came up with an act that he believed would appease both the north and the south what it was aimed to do was negate the 36, 30 compromise and let "popular sovreinty" decide The coice of free or slave hoping that that would appease the south and secretly thought that it would peacefully become free therefore making the south happy. -
Kansas Nebraska act part 2
But little did he know the act he made (known as the kansas nebraska act) would lead to violence and his own party members would disown him saying he was "selling out to the slave power" and would soon leasd to bleeding kansas (also shown) -
Bleeding Kansas
On May 21st 1855 The event called bleeding kansas started it began with an group of southreners with the help of an slave suppourting marhall stole from newspaper offices and homes in lawrence Kansas. this started an series of outbreaks of bloody violence between northreners and southreners with the upcoming elections these states would be decided by the winners by vote of the population leaving neither side agreeing when one another won the election. After much fightting the states were free. -
Dred Scott Case
The dredd scott case played a importaint role in the pre-civil war area in time dredd scott wass boen an enslaved black who was sold to an new owner. This new owner moved to the northren free states for fifteen years. his owner then moved south taking dredd with him then dredd argued for his freedom. Dredd was represented in the court of law.
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<ahref='https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/africanamerican/scott/scott.asp' >A final decision was delivered on March 6, 1857</a> -
Dredd scott case 2
He was represented in the court of law by an abolitionist lawer. The case went through a set of deliberatios to the point where the case was sent to the supreme court to decide if a free black man had the right to be represented in the court of law. And dredd lost and when he returned he was given to his original owners and let free. -
Presidential election of 1860
Four canidates for the presidential election of 1860 Abraham Linclon, Jhon Bell, Stephen Douglass, and James Beckinridge ran for office hoping to win presidency and without a single southren vote Abraham Linclon won to be our sixteenth president. -
attack of fort sumtner
On April the twelfth eighteen sixty one Confederates attacked fort sumptner an union fort in Charelston harbor, South Carolina after being alerted that linclon had sent reinforcements to suppourt the starving troops leading to an full 24 hours of attack that led the first attack by confederates on union troops. -
Death of William Still
william still died on july fourteenth 1902 in his home leaving behind three kids and his now widowed wife. due to old age he lived to be 71 years old
