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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was created to help prevent the North and South from engaging in any type of war. It occured when Missouri was in the process of being annexed and there was disagreements about its slave status. The compromise made it so that Maine could join as a free state and Missouri could join as a slave state, maintaining the balance. This compromise also stated that any land from the Louisana Purchase above the 36' 30' line was free land and any land below the line was slave land. -
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison is most known for his newspaper, "The Liberator." It was a very well known abolitionist newspaper. It supported the end of slavery and described the cruel affects of it. It added a great emotion to the people in the North that could read and didn't know what was going on in the South. This newspaper is what made William Lloyd Garrison known. Although the average person would say he had many accomplishments, this was the biggest. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner was a very religious person who believed he was sent to start a Slave rebellion. Turner along with a group of follweers attacked white men, women, and children. They were later on captured and executed. White people after that rebellion randomly killed black people with the thoughts they were starting another rebellion. They often beheaded them and put their heads on stakes along the road as a reminder of how easily you could be killed. -
Underground Railroad
In 1849 Harriet Tubman escaped slavery but worked on the The Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a network of people working to help slaves escape to free land. People working on the Underground Railroad were abolitionst who were breaking the law to help slaves escape. Codes were used to help the slaves know what do you and to ensure their safety. Routes the slaves chose were different. Some would be mountain adventures, others would travel the Ohio River. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was created to bring satisfaction to both the North and the South. California was annexed as a free state, and the Fugitive Slave Act was enforced. Also slave trade and selling of slaves was prohibited in Washington D.C. This was both a win and a lose for the North. They had another free state, but by law they had to return the slaves or face consquences that were enforced by law. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This was an act to make popular solventry in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. This act also repealed the Missouri Compromise, making it void. The act angered many people in the North, but made many people in the South happy. With repealing the Missouri Compromise, it also repealed the 36'30' line. Many abolitionsts and pro-slavery people fought over the land. Fights where killing took place happened quite frequently. This lead to what we know as, Bleeding Kansas. -
Bleeding Kansas
This was after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passsed and popular soventry took place. It caused fights between the North and South in Kansas. They both wanted to claim the land, but in the process there were many casualties. Fights broke out upon Kansas so frequently they called it Bleeding Kansas. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave. His master took him to free territories such as Wisconsin and Illinois. Dred lived in these free territories with his master until his master died. After his master died in 1846, he thought he deserved to be free. He sued for his rights, but after much of a fight the Supreme Court declared that he had no rights. He was "property" of the slave holder that inheritated him. But the slave holder eventually freed him, but he died within a year of being freed. -
Election of 1860
Many differences came to view when the Election of 1860 came. The candidates were Abraham Lincoln (republican), John Bell (constitutional union), John C. Breckinridge (democrat), and Stephen Douglas (democrat). At the time, most republicans were known in the North and most democrats favored the South. Since there was two democrats, the South divided their votes, Lincoln dominated the North's votes. Leaving Bell with a few border state's votes. Abraham Lincoln won without one Southern vote. -
Attack of Fort Sumter
The Attack of Fort Sumter was the beginning of the Civil War. It began with the "Confederate" army attacking Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. Fort Sumter was attacked by all directions and stood virtually no chance at over coming the attackers. They took the fort by surrender and this marked the beginning of a bloody war.
