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Kyle Herbstritt
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Underground Railroad
Between 1787-1865 slaves used something called the Underground Railroad to get up North into Canada. The Underground Railroad wasn’t an actual railroad, but it was a secret network of trails and safepoints to go North to freedom. There were secret terms used on the railroad which were usually religious or railroad terms. -
Missouri Compromise Part 2
-- William Pinkney said that that wouldn’t be fair and the United States would no longer be a Union of “equal states.” The outcome of this Compromise was that Missouri joined the Union as a slave state, but Maine joined as a free state to keep the balance between free and slave states, which was now 12:12. Also, portions of the Louisiana Territory north of the 36’30 line were free and south of that line slave. -
Missouri Compromise
On March 3rd, 1820 the Missouri Compromise was finally passed. During the Missouri Compromise southern slaveholders had already went to Missouri with their slaves. James Tallmadge said no more slaves be brought into Missouri and that the children of slaves that were already there should be freed at the age of 25. The southerners said that congress did not have the right to make conditions for a territory to become a state especially since all the other states had no conditions. -- -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
During August 22-23, 19831 in Southampton, Virginia there was a rebellion led by Nat Turner. Nat Turner was a very religious man. He was a priest at the Travis plantation in which the rebellion started. Nat Turner and about 60-70 other slaves started by killing the Travis family then going on to kill others. The whites started to see what was going on and started to whip or kill any black in sight. 3,000 troops from the Virginia militia were also sent to stop the rebellion. About 60 plantation-- -
Nat Turners Rebellion Part 2
--owners and their families and 200 blacks were killed as a result of this rebellion. After the rebellion blacks were accused of helping in the rebellion, some were found innocent, but most were killed. Nat Turner himself was found guilty and hung. Slaves were also killed in states surrounding Virginia as a result. Slaves heads were also cut off and put on posts to show that if they ever rebelled again that they would be killed. Strict laws, later to be known as black codes, were also enforced-- -
Nat Turners Rebellion Part 3
--because of this rebellion. These codes would last through the Civil War until about the time of the civil rights movement.
