-
Period: to
Underground Railroad
This is the span of the activtiy of the Underground Railroad -
Missouri Compromise
This 2-part compromise came about because the United States bought the Lousiana Purchase. Missouri wanted to become a state and because of that a question arose. Will this state be a slave or a free state? Henry Clay came up with the idea of having Missouri be a slave state and adding Maine as a free state. He also said that a new line, 36'30, would be established so every state below it would be slave states and any above would be free states. Missouri didn't follow this. -
Underground Railroad
This date is not really the date of the Undergroud Railroad. This date is here for the first time of the name. These were trails that all led to the North, to freedom. For slaves it was a wonderful blessing. Slaves were hidden by anit-slavery white families and black families and through many trials and difficutlies made it to Canada. Slaves faced mountains, wildlife, and the ever looming threat of being caught. This became more of a threat when the Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner, a slave and a very relious man, used the Bible to inspire slave to rebel against their masters. In Virgina he took 60 to 70 men with him and went around killing white men, women, and children. After this Nat was jailed and excuted along with other slaves that had joined him. Many other slave owners, even ones in other states, punished their slaves for being in the fight. Also as a result new laws were put on blacks to restrict their rights. These continued on until the 1960's. -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay presented this 5-part compromise to save the nation. Under this compromise California joined as a free state, we settled our dipute with Mexico, and slave trade was abolished in D.C. This compromise also had the most vengeful law know to slaves. It said that any runaway slaves had to be returned to the south. The people who turned them in would be rewardedm, but if you didn't you could be jailed. The judges were also paid, $5 to let someone go and $10 to send them back. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act repealed the 36'30' line made up by the Missouri Compromise. It also allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to chose whether they would be free or slave states. It angered many people in the North, but made the South very happy. Many people rushed into these territories to vote Pro-/Anti- slavery causing "Bleeding Kansas" and many other violence eruptions. -
Bleeding Kanas
This was truely a series of violence in Kansas over whether it would become a free state or a slave state. The attack know as "Bleeding Kansas" was led by John Brown who armed slaves and white men who could vote to go kill any who opposed that Kansas would be free. Voting was corrupt by then and 6,307 ballots were cast when there only 2,905 resteried voters. After this Kansas was still admitted as a free state after the succsion of the South, but John Brown was hung for the oragnizing of murder. -
Sojourner Truth
This date was the date that I figure is the day she ran away. Sojourner Truth was a traveling women's right and anti-slavery speaker. She ran away when she was 20 years old. After that she got back her children and started to be a speaker. She gave the speach "Ain't I a Woman". She was well know for being very true in her speaches. Now they honor her memory in statues in Battle Creek, Michigan. -
Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott Case was a legal proceedure of a slave named Dred Scott. Dred Scott was a free man that lived in Missouri. He asked the Supreme Court for his freedom. They didn't grant him it and they also said that any black, free or slave, couldn't ever become free citizens. This decision angered many abolinist. -
Election of 1860
The actually voting went on in Nov. We all know who won this election and recieved the place of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. But who was running against him? Stephen Douglass, John Bell, and John Bekenridge were. Stephen Douglass and John Bekenridge were both Democrats while John Bell was a part of the Constitutional Union which was a short-lived party. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican who was the first to win a President postion. The South was so mad at the results that they seceded. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
The attack on Fort Sumter was what most people call the start of the Civil War. This is when the what would be Confederate troops open fired on what would be the Union fort in the middle of Charleston Harbor. The fort sat on an island in the middle of the harbor was bombarded by all the fort and batteries that surrounded it on the swampy lands of South Carolina. Cargo ships watched from a distances as they could do nothing because they were sure the cannons would open fire on them and sink them.
