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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, therefore March 20, 1787 will be the start date. The end date, December 6, 1865 was when the 13th Amendment ending slavery was passed, thus ending the need to escape on the Underground Railroad. -
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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad (UGRR)was a secret network of people, places, and routes into the north from the south that led slaves to freedom in large cities,black communities, and Canada. This was secretive because of the 1850 fugitive slave act which said that any fugitive or runaway slave was to be returned back to the south. Slaves, fugitives, abolitionists, conductors, stockholders, and free people wer a part of the UGRR that freed these slaves and risked their lives for freedom. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise said whether or not there was slavery from a certain area in America. This certain area was lines of latitude 36 degrees, 30 degrees north that separated freed from slave. Missouri already had slaves so they were a exception of the Union. It also limited the amount of southern states and northern states so that neither side had more of majority than the other. Missouri became a slave state in the Union and luckily Maine became part of the Union too only as a free state, w -
The Missouri Compromise
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William Still
William Still was a free black man who lived in the north. He is popular for having the most descripted records of slaves coming through his home and the interviews with them. He was one out of four children and two of his brothers were slaves down south. Levy who was one of the brothers died and his other brother Peter actually survived. In one of Williams interviews he was in the presence of his brother and he had no idea. -
William Still
the presence of his brother and started realizing it as they started having things in common. He was the most accomplished and bravest recorder of his time. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
ere were laws or “Black Codes” put in place to limit slave’s rights. These laws were trying to prevent the inevitable. Nat Turners rebellion was to make life better for the slaves but it turned out it made it worse for the slaves. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner was a slave on the Travis family plantation in Virginia. On August 13 he led a rebellion of about 60 to 70 slaves against slave and plantation owners. They killed the entire Travis family and ended up killing 60 plantation owners and their family members. The state sent out 3,000 militia, who captured many of the rebels, who were later jailed, tried, found guilty by the courts, and executed. Many plantation owners were very scared that this rebellion would spread to their homes so the -
The Compromise of 1850
the people in the country had to help catch runaway slaves. This meant even if you were free you really were not. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a five part compromise started by Henry Clay and finished by Stephen Douglas. First it stated that California could join the union as a free state. Second it decided what to do with the lands won in the Mexican War. Third the slave trade in Washington D.C. was closed but they could still have slaves. Fourth Texas would get 20 million dollars if they gave up the border dipute, in which they could use to pay off Mexico. Finally, the Fugitive Slave Act which said that all -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas introduced this act to congress figuring that there was absolutely no way that these would be slave states. The north was outraged and imediately free soilers were in these states fighting off southerners. John Brown was a famous raid leader during this time. It also caused many new political parties to develop and some faded away. -
Bleeding Kansas
Period in time when proslavery and antislavery people flocked to kansas. They wanted to make certain that the land was going to be what they wanted it to be. This resulted in many different opinions of the settlers there. Many raids and mini battles broke out across the land consuming families and even towns. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott believed that he should be able to be called a citizen and be free. His previous owner who was a doctor had just died and his wife had them now. They went to every court and finally ended up at the supreme court. He was found as not a citizen or piece of property and was not given freedom. His very first owners son bought his freedom and a year later Dred died, but as a free man. -
Election of 1860
The south were the democrats who believed they had a chance in the election and voted for John C. Breckinridge. The north were all Republicans that voted for a young but intelligent Abraham Lincoln. There were two other candidates running that were minor parties that only won one-four states. The results were in and Abraham Lincoln had won. The southerners were outraged because not a single southern vote for Lincoln was counted and only northern states voted for him, unfair in their eyes. -
The Attack on Fort Sumter
ring of fire" because they knew it would be suicide. Word of this got back to Lincoln and this event is the official start of the Civil War. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Following the role of South Carolina the Confederate states of America(CSA) was born. Fort Sumter was on an island in the middle of the harbor near Charleston, SC. All the forts and gun batterys around were occupied by CSA but Lincoln still looked at these forts and states as part of the union and wouldnt let them be known as anything else. The attack began even though the confederates knew they had no supplies and wouldnt fight back. Cargo ships didnt attempt to enter what the CSA called "The
