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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad wasn't really a railroad that was underground. It wasn't even a railroad, it was a secret network of trails and hidding areas to help slaves run away from the south to the north. On the underground railroad they had secret codes like if a house was safe to hid in, it would have a lantern in the window as a signal that it's safe to come in. They also had secret names. The owners of the safe houses were called "conductors." -
The Missouri Compromise pt2.
Due to Missouri being becoming a slave state, to balance out the free and slave states Maine was drafted to be a free state. The “36 30” line was established. This imaginary line separated the free states from the slave states. Any state north of it was considered free, with the exception of Missouri, if it’s south of the line it is a slave state. Slaves we not to be brought across this line. The “36 30” line didn’t go all the way across the United States, it only went across the Louisiana land. -
The Missiouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise- the Missouri Compromise was about deciding if the state of Missouri is to be a free or slave state. Slave holders migrated to Missouri before it was to become a state. With slaves already there, it made the decision harder. If slave holders were told to move back to the south with their slaves, it would most likely stat some kind of war. Missouri eventually gained admission to the Union as a slave state. -
Levi Coffin
Born in New Garden, Guilford County, he is one of the most known abolitionist. October 28, 1824 (also born this day) he married Catherine White, then moved to Newport (now Fountain City), Wayne County, Indiana where they opened a store used to help run away slaves reach freedom in Canada. From his success being an abolitionist he earned the nickname “President of the Underground Railroad”. He was also a member of the Committee on Concerns of People of Color to Consider Their Education and -
Levi Coffin
and was treasurer of funds to aid the poor and destitute. He also took part n the Temperance Movement witch is a social movement urging reduced or prohibited use of alcoholic beverages. In that last years of his life he spent in writing his autobiography “Reminiscences of Levi Coffin witch was published in 1876 by the Western Tract Society of Cincinnati, Ohio. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Also known as "Southampton Insurrection" Nat Turner's Rebellion started in Virgina on Augus 21, 1831. Nat lead 60 to 70 slaves to what they hopped was freedom. The rebellion first started at the Travis plantaion in which Nat Turner was a slave. Turner and the slaves killed the entire Travis family. Near the end, the rebellion had killed around 60 plantion owners and their families. When Nat and the slaves on the rebellion were captured, they all were imprisoned then later exicuted. -
Compromise of 1850
The Comromise of 1850 was aranged to decide if California will become a free or slave state. on January 29, 1850, Henry Clay introduced some resolutions hoping to not couse a crisis between the North and the South. Due to the Compromise, the Fugative Slave Act and slave trade in D.C. was abolished. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was born a slave in Virginia, later moved to Alabama with Pete Blow (his owner). In 1830, Mr. BLow died adn Dred Scott was bought from the Blow family by a military surgent, Dr. John Emerson who late relocated to the free state of Illinois with Dred. After a few years of living in Wisconsin, Scott decided to try to sue for his freedome, he lost. Later on, Emerson died adn Scott and his wife was purhesed by Emerson's sons. Once purchesed by the sons, Scott was set free with his wife.
