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Underground Railroad
There were alot of people involved in the Underground Railroad. Such as Harriet Tubman, slaves, abolitionists, free slaves, and stockholders. The railroad was a secret network of people, places, and routes in the North that led slaves to freedom. The Underground Railroad ran from the Upper and Deep South to Canada. They took many different routes. The railroad was established to help slaves escape to freedom. -
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Underground Railroad
The way it worked was slaves would meet up with conductors and go through the Underground Railroad. This led them to the North and most slaves would go even farther North and go to Canada. Isaac T. Hopper, a Quaker, began a system for hiding and aiding runaway slaves in 1787. This is what started the Underground Railroad. March 20th is the first day of spring, and spring was the safest time to of the year to escape, therefore March 20, 1787 will be the start date. The end date, December 6, 1865 -
Thomas Garrett
When Thomas Garrett was a child a serant employed by his family was kidnapped and nearly forced into slavery. Which caused him to devote his life to the abolitionist cause. -
Thomas Garrett
I picked the date August 21, 1789 becasuse that was when Thomas Garret was born. He was a stationmaster for the Underground Railroad (UGRR). He helped more than 2,700 slaves escape to freedom in a forty year career. He was a white Quaker and hid runaway slaves in a Delaware County farmhouse. In 1848 John Hunn and Thomas Garrett were tried and convicted for aiding the escape of the Hawkins family. Both were given incredibly large fines that they almost went bankrupt. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Beside what the North thought Stephen Douglas thought the they would be okay with this. He thought that the agriculture would not support cotton or alavery and they would choose to be free states. Popular Sovereignty fits into this act alot. It allowed the states to vote whether they wanted to be a free or slave state. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Senator Stephen Douglas intoduced the Kansas Nebraska Act. He wanted Chicago to benefit from the of Kansas and west and he wanted to run for president. The act proclaimed that people in the territory should decide whether slavery should be allowed in there state or not.The South supported this act because it raised the possibility of Kansas and Nebraska becoming slave states. However the North was against this act becasuse they thought Douglas was a sell out to the slave power. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was when Missouri applied for admission to statehood. Many people questioned whether Missouri should be a free or slave state. Southern slaveholders had already migrated into the Missouri territory. James Tallmadge proposed that no more slaves be brought into Missouri and the children there be freed at the age of 25. Congress had the ability to admit and deny statehood. -
The Missouri Compromise
Pinkney argued that states already in the union didn’t have conditions so the new ones to join shouldn’t have conditions. If congress set new conditions then the new states would not be equal to the old ones. Later Missouri joined the union as a slave state and Maine was admitted to statehood as a free state. This established the 36’30 line, which created a balance between states. There was now 12 southern states and 12 northern states. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
. This made life harder for slaves. They had new laws made up which later after the Civil War became known as Black Codes. Some of these laws kept slaves from what we do in everyday life. Such as own our own property or learn to read and write. After the new laws slaves realized how much more they wanted freedom. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner was a very religious man as he once said. However Nat Turner was the leader of a slave rebellion. He led a group of about 60 to 70 slaves. First they began at the Travis plantation where Turner was a slave. They killed the entire Travis family and then they moved onto other plantations. Not many people responded well to his rebellion. There were troops sent out to capture Nat Turner and his followers. Many slaves were captured and tried in court for being a part of the rebellion. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner himself was jailed, tried in court, found guilty and he was executed by hanging. Later the local lawyer Thomas Gray interviewed Turner and wrote The Confessions of Nat Turner. Thomas Gray said that all the confessions were true but how do we know that it wasn’t Gray’s side of the story. Turner wanted to carry terror and devastation wherever he went. After the rebellion the plantation owners were reimbursed and many families became afraid that another rebellion would happen. -
Compromise of 1850
Later the Underground Railroad became much more popular. This was sort of unfair because the blacks had no way to legally defend themselves. Last but not least the judges were paid $10 for every runaway returned. Now this may not seem like a lot but back then it was. Do you think that the Compromise of 1850 was fair? -
Compromise of 1850
The third part is that slave trade was outlawed in Washingtion DC and slavery was still allowed in DC. After that in the fourth part the Texas border dispute is settled. Now in the last part there was a lot. The Fugitive Slave Law said that all runaway slaves had to be returned to their owners or plantations. Another thing is that free blacks in the North could be captured and sent to the south. Also whites had to report any known runaway and if they didn't they would be fined or jailed. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was what saved the state from splitting in two. In this compromise there were five parts. In the first part California joined the union as a free state. Now there are more free states than slave states. Also the U.S senate has more anti-slavery senators than pro-slavory senators. However in the second part of the compromise the land we gained from the Mexican American War gets to be decided if they will have slaves or not (Popular Sovereighty.) -
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown was the one to lead the proslavery supporters. Lawrence Kansas and Browns reaction sparked a summer of murderous raids and counterraids through Kansas. -
Bleeding Kansas
Tenision in Kansas began when the Kansas- Nebraska bill become law. Antislavery settlers from New England moved to Kansas to try to fight against the Slave Power. People who wanted to make the territories free were called the free soiler. Porslavery 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. -
Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott Case was decided on in the year 1857. Dred Scott belonged to the Blow family and was sold to an army surgent. He was born in Virginia as a slave in 1799. He wanted to sue for his freedom instead of running away. He sent it to the court and they denied it. They questioned if Scott was a citizen or not. When the Constitution was written, enslaved people were not considered people, but an inferior race. -
Dred Scott Case
Tension between the states arose and began to push the country to the brink of war. The issue was: whose rights were greater, those of the states or the federal government. In 1857 Scott was given back to the Blow family. In return they gave Scott and his family their freedom. -
Dred Scott Case
It was decided that the framers of the constitution did not put them under the classification of citizens. The lived and worked but were considered a piece of property. Another part of the Dred Scott Case was if the Missouri Compromise was even legal. The rights of a private property owner were protected by the constituion but if you owned land you could not move freely. When the decision was read it inflamed both sides of the issue. -
Presidential Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln won all of the Northern states over except for New Jersey. He had a total of 180 votes including Oregon and California. Stephen Douglas had 12 votes winning over Missouri and New Jersey. As for Breckinridge he had a total of 72 votes winning over the lower south. -
Presidential Election of 1860
John Bell won the border states with 39 votes. Abraham Lincoln won the election. Southerners weren't very happy with this because he won without one southern vote. -
Presidential Election of 1860
There were four runners up for president. The only republican was Abraham Lincoln. He was against slavery but let it go. He just didn't want it to spread. There were only two democrats and they were Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge. Douglas wanted popular sovereighty which allowed the states to choose to be a free or slave state. Breckinridge wanted to expand slavery. The last person running was John Bell from the Constiutional Union and he wanted to end slavery completely. -
Fort Sumter
Confederate General Beaurguard forced Sumter to surreender on April 12, 1861. The shots fired at Fort Sumter helped lead to the Civil War. -
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was and island in teh Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. There were several Confederate forts and batteries that surrounded Fort Sumter. To get to the fort they used the Main Ship Channel.Confederate General Beaurguard said he would form a "circle of fire" around Fort Sumter. Meaning he would have forts surround to fire. Fort Sumter was isolated and easy to capture. Union ships didn't attempt to reach Fort Sumter.
