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The Middle Passage is the trip slaves and slave ships took to europe but when american colonies were established the middle passage also brought slaves to america util the mid 19th century -
In order to aprove the American Constitution The south wanted 3/5ths of all other persons who are not white(slaves) to be counted towards the population and be represented in coungress -
The Missouri Compromise was a line that poloticians agreed on that slavery can not pass but can be allowed south of the line. It was also part of the long line of compromise to keep the union together -
The Underground Railroad was a series of stops that runaway slaves could take to find safty and then freedom.the conductors of this railroad were abolitionist/anti-slavery advocates bent on stopping slavery from going west to getting rid of slavery all together
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Nat Turner a free man then returned to slavery lead a rebellion on his former owner with a group of slaves and the went acrouse Virginia killing whites left and right and freeing slaves till he and his resistence were captured -
In 1850 Harriet Beacher Stow made a book called Uncle Toms Cabin an abolitionist book describing the devils of slavery and the book put women on the political stage. -
The Comromise of 1850 proposed my Henry Clay allowed California into the union and enacted fugitive slave laws where slave holders could force people to help them find a runaway slave and if a slave gets into a free state they are still not free -
Instead of following the Missouri Compromis the goverment gave the teritorys of Kansas and Nebraska popular soverinty in the Kansas Nebraska act allowing them to choose if they wanted slavery in the territorys. this caused abolitionists and slave holders to get into bloody conflicts hence the name bleeding Kansas. -
In 1857 Dred Scot had crossed into free teritory and sued for his freedom because the missouri compromise said that if a slave crosses the border into a free state the slave is now free. When Dred Scot sued for his freedom Roger B Tanney said that the missouri compromise was unconstitution, negros were not american citizens, and negros could not win there freedom. -
October 16, 1859. Abolitionists Captain John Brown leads a raid consisting of himself and his sons on the Hapers ferry armory after seizing the armory he hoped escape slaves would come and give him support..none came. -
Issued by Abraham Licoln the Emancipation Proclomation garenteed all slaves in any states of the confederacy free and no longer slaves. it also encoureged them to join in millitary service.
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