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The Missouri Compromise
Congress had a unique question would Missouri be a free or slave state. Maryland argued that states already in the union joined without any conditions. The new states would not be equal to the old states. The United States would no longer be a union of equal states. The issue was solved by a two part compromise. The first part was Missouri joined the union as a slave state, with a provision that portions of Lousiana Territory lying north of the 36' 30' north lattitude would be free. -
The Missouri Compromise
The second part was that Maine was simultaneously admitted to statehood, which enabled the Senate to maintain the balance between slave and free state representation twelve each. -
William Still
I picked this date because this is when William Still was born.William Still is from New Jeresy, Indian Mills. He was born a freeman. He was famous for interviewing all the slaves he came in touch with and keeping documented records of his incounters. William Still never destroyed his records and are still helpful today. He found himself aiding a fugitive slave who they both came to learn was his brother. He was known as the "Father of the Underground Railroad." -
Nat Turner
Nat Turner was a leader of a rebellion and was very intelligent and religious. He led a rebellion with 60 or 70 slaves in it. It took place in Virginia in 1831. Turner started as a slave for the Travis plantation. They killed about 60 plantation owners and their families. The first official response to Nat Turner’s rebellion was to call out the militia. They sent out 3,000 troops to capture Nat Turner and his followers. -
Nat Turner
Nat Turner himself was jailed, tried in court, found guilty, and executed by hanging. This rebellion made plantation owners and their families very nervous that is would happen again. One estimate says that 200 slaves were murdered by mob violence in the years following the rebellion. After the rebellion southern states began to pass new laws. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott decided to sue for his freedom but he spent his slave years in free states. The first aspect of this case was whether Scott was even a citizen of Missouri. The second part of the decision was whether the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was even legal. Roger Tony decided he must remain a slave and as a slave he is property. In 1857 Mrs. Emerson gave the Scotts back to the Blow Family. They in return gave the scott family their freedom. Dred died the next year, he and his family were free. -
Underground Railroad
I picked this date because this is when the fugitive slave act passes and more slaves moved to Canada.The Underground Railroad(UGRR) was a secret network of people, places and routes that led slaves to freedom. There were some routes in the South, but the slaves had more routes in the North. Many people were involved in the UGRR. Conductors were people who operated the UGRR. There were also Stationmasters were the keeper of the safehouse. Stockholders were people who donated to the UGRR. -
Underground Railroad
These were some of the people that helped runaway slaves.There was a need for the Underground Railroad because if slaves were treated unfairly they would want to runaway to become free. There was also the fugitive slave act that if any runaway slaves were found they would be sent back to the South. If anyone found helping them would get a fine and or in jail. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a big part in slavery. It was a five part compromise. Henry Clay was the man who wanted the compromise. Senator John C. Calhoun felt that slavery should be able to expand into the western territory. He supported states rights and even southern states leaving the Union if need be. Senator Stephen Douglass contiue trying to get the compromis passed. President Millard Fillmore supported the idea of a compromis. -
The Compromise of 1850
The first part of the compromise was that California joined as a free state. Now there are more free states than slavery states. U.S senate has more anti-slavery senators than the south has pro-slavery senators. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
I picked this date because this is when the act was officaly passed and became a law. Senator Stephen Douglas introduced this act. He introduced this because he wanted Chicago to benefit from the development of the west. The sooner Kansas and Nebraska become states the sooner railroads could be built across them to link Chicago with the west. The second reason is he wanted to run for president. To do that he needed southern democrats. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act proclaimed that it would forget about the 36 30 and rely on popular sovereignty. Southerners supported this act because it was a chance for Kansas and Nebraska to become slave states. Northerners were against it because they didnt want anymore slave states the democrats call Douglas a sell-out. This would eventually lead up to bleeding Kansas -
Bleeding Kansas
I picked this date because this is when John Brown led and attack on Pottawatomie Creek Tesnsion in Kansas began in 1854 when the Kansas-Nebraska bill became law. Many antislavery settlers from New England moved to Kansas to fight against Slave Power. Proslavery settlers from Missouri moved into Kansas to vote illegally in the territory hoping Kansas would become a slave state. The first act of violence was in Lawrence Kansas and was started by proslavery supporters. -
Presidential Election of 1860
This election was North vs. South. John Breckinridge and Abraham Lincoln were the two big canadiates in the election. The lower and upper south voted for Breckingridge.The north voted for Lincoln. There were two other canadiates Stephen Douglas and John Bell. John bell won the boarder states and Douglas won Missouri and New Jersey. This election was the only election that the loosers couldnt handle the loss. This election tore the country apart. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was a Union fort on a island in Charleston Harbor. Lincoln was trying to get supplies to the fort when General Becvregard said he would make a ring of fire around the fort. The fort was surrounded by two other forts and batteries. There were two Confederate forts at the entrance of the Main Ship Channel. Fort Sumter was not ready but the Confederates fired on them for 24 hours. The Confederates took Forts Sumter and this was the start of the Civil War
