-
The Middle Passage was part of the Triangle Trade. In the Middle Passage, slaves from Africa would be transported by boat to America to become slaves there. It wasn't a pleasant trip. All the black people were confined down in the bottom, chained up, next to each other. They couldn't get up to move. Many of the people down there died. It started sometime around 1518 and continued all the way until 1832. -
The Missouri Compromise was an attempt to stop slavery from expanding by making Missouri the last slave state. The United States also added Maine which was a free state (no slaves were in Maine). This compromise did stop the EXPANSION of slavery. However, slavery was still in the Southern states. -
Nat Turner and a bunch of other slaves (120 to be exact) killed plantation owners and their families. Around 55 and 65 people were killed. 51 of those people were white. -
The Underground Railroad was a series of underground passages that lead from one place to another. Its primary use was to get slaves up North to Pennsylvania where slavery was abolished. Harriet Tubman helped a whole lot of slaves get up North. -
The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt to try to break a brewing conflict between slave and free states on the territories acquire through the Mexican-American War. It set Texas's borders to the west and north. Texas was made as a slave state but it was sooner made a free state. -
Slaves that ran away from their master would be returned through the fugitive slave clause. Even if the slave was living in a free state, the slave would have to be returned to their owner. This made it impossible for slaves to live who wanted to live a free life in a free state. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a novel that was supporting anti-slavery. The book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe; who was American. The novel was about Uncle Tom, a slave who was being transported to New Orleans. While he was there, he saved a woman named Little Eva. Eva and Tom became very close friends. -
The Kanas-Nebraska Act was an act that created Kansas and Nebraska. Congress allowed the states to decide whether or not the states should be slave states or free states. This decision started an uprising called ''Bleeding Kansas". Bleeding Kansas was a movement where proslavery and antislavery activists settled their opinions through violence and brute force. The proslavery activists won and Kansas was made a slave state. -
Dred Scott was living in a free state. But the government did not allow him to live in freedom. This was highly controversial and said to be Chief Justice's Roger Brooke Taney's (the person who accused Dred Scott) worst opinion for the court because he ignored precedent and distorted history. He even said that African Americans could live as citizens of the United States and could vote but could not sue in federal court. What he said made no sense whatsoever. -
John Brown was an attempt to make slaves free. 22 slaves along side John Brown tried to take some weapons at the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry. John Brown's Raid failed. But his attempts made him a hero in the eyes of many people. This was one of the biggest events that started the Civil War. -
The Emancipation Proclamation was an article written by Abraham Lincoln. It was directed to slaves stating that in 10 states, slaves shall be completely free from slavery. This was during the 3rd year of the Civil War.
A list shows items. A timeline shows sequence.
Use Timetoast to make dates, milestones, and turning points easier to understand in a clear visual format. Timetoast is a timeline maker for work, school, research, and stories.