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The Middle Passage was a part of the triangular trade that forced millions of Africans to be transported to the New World as part of the slave trade. The Middle Passage supplied the New World with its slaves and labor workers and gave money to those that were a big part of the slave trade. -
The Missouri Compromise was United States legislation that put an end to the northerner's attempts to stop slavery's expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state in exchange for legislation. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. -
The Underground Railroad was a bunch of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States, and used by enslaved African Americans to escape into free states. -
The Compromise of 1850 was five different bills passed by Congress in September 1850. It created a negotiation between slave states and free states. -
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. This act made sure that slaves are going to be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book against slavery by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a big effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. -
This act allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. Kansas then earned the nickname "bleeding Kansas" as deaths increased over the pressure of the big decision. -
Dred Scott was an enslaved African-American man who failed to sue for his freedom, Harriet Robinson Scott, and their two daughters in his trial, which became known as the Dred Scott Case. -
John Brown started a raid from October 16 to 18, 1859 in an attempt to start a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, during the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation was legislation that gave slaves their opportunity to free life in the United States and finally ended slavery.
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