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The Middle Passage
This event involved people from Africa being brought to America by ships across the ocean. These slaves would be forcefully taken out of where they lived and forced to go to America where they would become slaves working on plantations. The journey was very hard for them and often people would get very sick because of these conditions and sometimes even die. This impacted America because the plantations could have many people working for them without having to pay them. -
Fugitive Slave Clause
The fugitive slave clause effected people who were enslaved. These people were requiered to turn back to their owners even if they were in the Northern states where there were no slaves. People who esacaped and were found would get into hudge truble and be returned back to their owner. This impacted history greatly becuase people who used to run to the northern states to be free now had to run all the way to Canada to be prevented from being taken back by their owners. -
Missouri Compromise
This compromise involved the decision whether or not to admit Missouri as a slave state upon their applications for statehood in 1818 and 1819. Congress was in a disagreement, as it was already separated by pro-slavery and anti-slavery state representatives/states. As expected, the pro-slavery (southern) states argued that the original 13 states should be the ones to decide a new state's position on slavery, while anti-slavery (northern) states opposed the expansion of slavery (Go to next slide) -
Missouri Compromise (part 2)
and worried that the admission of Missouri as a slave state would upset the balance between slave states and free states that currently existed. After the renewal of Missouri's application to become a state in 1819, Henry Clay introduced the idea that the two sides (pro and anti-slavery) could compromise by admitting Missouri as a slave state, but at the same time, they would admit Maine as a free state. On March 7, 1820, this bill was signed into law and the House had passed it 4 days prior. -
Underground Railroad
A network of people (spreading all across the developing United States) that offered shelter and help to escaped slaves from southern states that developed as a result of multiple different attempts to help enslaved people escape, was named the Underground Railroad. The exact dates of its emergence are unknown, however, it continued to aid escaped slaves and undermine the slave states up until the Civil War. One of the main and or one of the most well known "conductors" on the Underground -
Underground Railroad (Part 2)
Railroad, was Harriet Tubman. She was an escaped slave who helped numerous other slaves escape from their situations in the south. This was especially difficult for her, because she suffered from Narcolepsy due to an accident that occurred when she was a young child. -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
In 1831 in Virginia, Nat Turner and many other slaves set out to kill many slave owners and their familes. This event took place when Nat Turner who was a christan said that god told him the only way to end slavery was to kill slave and that is just what he did with some other enslaved people. This led to other enslaved people to rebel against them but this did impact the way people thought about slaves but slavery would still not come to an end for a while. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a compromise that involved the states of California, New Mexico, and Utah and whether they would be admitted as free states or slave states. It also discussed the New Mexico-Texas boundary and made it much easier for slave owners to regain runaway slaves using the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The Compromise of 1850 was essentially the product of Whig Senator Henry Clay, and Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas. It was enacted in the hopes of preventing a civil war. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This novel was extremely popular, and sold 300,000 copies within three months of publishing (which was a huge accomplishment at the time). The Author-Harriet Beecher Stowe-was a prominent Feminist and Abolitionist, and this story was a method for her to get the word out about how slaves were really being treated. It became so popular all across the country, that, upon his meeting of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln reportedly said "So this is the little lady who made this big war". -
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Part 2)
This novel, in a way, kind of set off the civil war by bringing so much awareness to the way that slaves were being treated, because this was not often talked about at the time. It created a lot of outrage among the people of the United States, and influenced some of the people who might have been on the fence about the subject of slavery or just thought that if they ignored it, everything would be fine. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding Kansas
Senator Stephen Douglas put forward an idea for a bill that would organize the territory of Nebraska. This contentious bill facilitated the forming of the idea that slavery could be extended into areas where it had once been illegal. It's passage into law fueled the fight over slavery in America, which eventually evolved into the Civil War. All of this took place in the U.S.'s senate at the time. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott had lived in a free state a long time before the act was passed that slaves must return to their owners but since he had been living in a free state for so long he should be able to stay. The court however did not agree with this a denied him and he had to return back to his owner. This case put a lot more rules on African Americans and they could no longer become citizens of the United States making it impossible to be free if you were African American. -
John Brown’s Raid
John Brown's raid was a raid on Harper's Ferry, a small town, it was planned to take any weapons that they held and free any slaves they did end up doing all of these things in the end and was not considered the most successful. Even though this was not the most successful people from the North praised them and the South was outraged causing even more tension between these two regions of America. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln which was a document that set slaves free from their owners all across the United States. These slaves were now able to be across the united states and their old owners could not take them back. This was a big change in history becuase enslaved people did not have to take so many precautions to run away and they were just able to go and leave.