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Underground Railroad
Appalachian mountains to go up north. Along the way of the journey the fugitives would get help from abolitionists. Abolitionists were people involved in helping the fugitives get up north without getting caught. They were called station masters and conductors. The would leave secrets messages for they fugitives to give them clues on which way to go and when it was safe to leave. The Underground Railroad really started up after the fugitive slave act and ended in 1865 after the Civil War. -
Underground Railroad
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. -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad is a secret network of people, places, and routes in the north that led slaves to freedom in large cities, black communities, and Canada. Slaves escaped because after the fugitive slave act slaves lives were even harder than before. They got beat and family members were taken away from them so they escaped up north to be free. These slaves who escaped came from mostly the upper south. They traveled up the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and went through swamps and the -
The Missouri Compromise
The north and the south were arguing about whether slavery should be permitted in Missouri. South wanted Missouri to be a slave state and north wanted Missouri to be a free state. Southerners didn’t think congress had the right to determine whether Missouri territory should be free or slave. Slaveholders already migrated to the Missouri territory so the south thought it would make sense for Missouri to be a slave state. The north didn’t want Missouri to be a slave state because it would upset th -
The Missouri Compromise
the balance between free and slave states. Tallmadge said that no new slaves are to be brought into the territory and that any child slaves should be released at the age of twenty-five. The compromise had two parts. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. Also, anything in the Louisiana Territory lying north of the 36’30’ north latitude was free and anything south the 36’30’ line was a slave state. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner was a slave for the Travis family. He led the slave rebellion which consisted of a group of about 60-70 slaves. They first killed the Travis family then moved on to other plantations killing the whole families. They got to about 60 plantations and killed the whole famlies. Nat Turner had been proven guilty and was executed by hanging. Most of the slaves from the rebellion were captured and proven guilty. Afterwards, whites started to get scared and started killing their -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
slaves afraid that they would attack their families too. This made life rough for many slaves because they were no longer trusted. There were mobs of whites killing blacks in the years following the rebellion. The whole rebellion started on August 22, 1831 but the response to the rebellion lasted for years and changed history forever. New laws were passed to go against blacks and later the Black Codes were established limiting blacks of their freedom. Slaves wanted their freedom even more now. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was passed on September 9th 1850. It was a five part compromise that was created by Henry Clay. John C. Calhoun was against Clays compromise and wanted slavery in the western territories. After Clay died Stephen Douglass continued Clays compromise. The president during this time period was Millard Fillmore and he is the one who signed the compromise. -
Compromise of 1850
All runaway slaves had to be returned to their plantations. If whites did not report runaway slaves they could be fined or put in jail. This made the underground railroad very popular as slaves tried to run away to Canada. -
Compromise of 1850
The first part of the Compromise was that California joins as a free state. This upset the balance of free and slave states. Second it was agreed that the mexican-american war land got to decide as a state on whether they wanted slavery or not using popular sovereighnty. Third the slave trade was outlawed in D.C. but slavery was still allowed in D.C. Fourth the texas border was settled which was the Rio Grande River. Finally the fugitive slave law was established. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin was published on March, 20th 1852. This book is what made Harriet Beecher Stowe such a famous abolotionist. She was a white woman who lived in Brunswick, Maine. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin off of a vision she had while in church. The vision was off an old black man getting beatin by two other black men while a whiteman watched. This story was all fictional but changed alot of peoples views towards slavery. Other than writing a book Harriet helped a woman and her child get to a -
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Kansas- Nebraska Act
already supposed to be free. Stephen Douglas thought that the North would support this act because there was no need for slaves in these territories therefor they would automatically be free. The Kansas Nebraska Act led to Bleeding Kansas. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
The Kansas- Nebraska Act bill became a law on May, 30 1854. Stephen Douglas introduced the Kansas Nebraska Act because he wanted to continue the railroads and wanted to be president. This act gave the people of the Kansas and the Nebraska territory the choice of whether they wanted to be a slave or free state. This was called popular sovereighnty. The south supported this because there was a chance that these states could be pro-slavery. The North was against this act because these states were -
Bleeding Kansas
Tension in the Kansas territory began when the Kansas- Nebraska bill became a law. Antislavery settlers from New England moved to Kansas to try to fight against the Slave Power. Settlers who were commited to keeping the territory of Kansas free of slavery were called free sailers. 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 -
Bleeding Kansas
Abolotionist John Brown led other antislavery supporters in an attack on proslavery settlers where they killed 5 proslavery men. The looting in Lawrence that occured on May, 21 1856 and Brown's reaction to it started a summer of murderous raids throughout Kansas giving the territory the name Bleeding Kansas. -
Dred Scott Case
him and tried to win his freedom for him. This ended the missouri compromise. People were fighting over whether states or federal rights had more importance. In the end Scott was returned to his original owner and set free dying a free man. -
Dred Scott Case
On May 26, 1857 Dred Scott was formally freed. He was a slave who sued for his freedom. He had been working for an army surgeon in free states for 12 whole years. He felt that since he had been living in free states he should be considered a free man. The said that he must remains property because no citizen should be deprived of property so his owner must keep him. This case went to the supreme court where they stated this. An abolitionist laywer had represented him and tried to win his freedom -
Election of 1860
not a single southern state had voted for him and they felt it was unfair. Starting with South Carolina seven states seceded before Lincoln was even in office. They called themselves the Confederacy and even elected Douglas as president. Lincoln didnt think of them as their own countrty but this issue really caused some tention between the north and the south.
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Election of 1860
On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president. He won without a single southern electoral vote. The people chose him because we was moderate on slavery. He was the only republican running while he was up against Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. The south wanted Breckinridge and the north wanted Lincoln. Since the north had a larger population in white men they had more votes. Breckinridge wanted to expand slavery. The south ended up getting upset with this election because -
Fort Sumter
April 12th and 13th of 1861 were the days of the attack on Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter was an island that was easy to capture. Forts and gun batterys from the confederacy surrounded the fort. The only way to get to the fort was through the main ship channel or through the marshes. Fort Sumter was running out of supplies so ships were coming in to bring in supplies. Instead the fort was attacked by the confederacy. Beauregard forced Fort Sumter to surrender on April 12th telling his troops to form a -
Fort Sumter
ring of fire around the fort. This event is what started the civil war.
