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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was about Missouri becoming a state and whether it should be a slave or free state. The north wanted it to become a free state but the south wanted it to be a slave state. Henry Clay came up with a compromise. Missouri became a slave state and Maine was admitted as a state as well and it became a free state. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a rebellion of about 60 - 70 slaves led by Nat Turner. The first plantation to be attacked was the Travis plantation where Turner had been a slave. Turner and his followers killied the entire family. By the end of the rebellion, the rebals had killed about 60 plantation owners and their families. Finally, Nat Turner and his followers were caught and executed. -
Sojourner Truth
Her birth name was Isabella Baumfree. She changed her name on June 1, 1843. She was born in 1797 in Ulster County, New York. She died on November 26, 1883 in Battle Creek, Michigan. She was born a slave but ran away. She became a preacher and spoke about anti-slavery and women's rights. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was about California becoming a state and whether it should be a free or slave state. Henry Clay came up with the compromise. Senator John Calhoun didn't want a compromise and wanted slavery to be allowed in the west. But then he and the president died. The new president, Millard Fillmore, agreed with Clays plan. When Clay got too sick, Stephen Douglass took over for him and got the compromise passed. California became a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act became a Law. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within thier borders. It upset people in the north but the south supported it. Pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers went to Kansas and violence soon erupted. John Brown was one of the anti-slavery leaders. -
Bleeding Kansas
There was a lot of violence in Kansas. One of the most publicized events was on May 21, 1856 when Border Ruffians ransacked Lawrence, Kansas which was known as a staunch free-state area. Then in 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave owned by Dr. John Emerson who had taken Dred Scott into free states. Scott thought he should be free since he had been in a free state. So he went to court but he lost. Then his former master's sons purchased him and set him free. He died nine months later. -
Presidential Election of 1860
The four candidates of the 1860 Presidential Election were Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John Breckinridge, and John Bell. Abraham Lincoln became the Republican nominee for president and received the news in the office of a local newspaper on May 18, 1860. Then he won the election and became president right at the beggining of the Civil War. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was on an island in the Charleston Harbor surrounded by Confederate forts and gun batteries. Fort Sumter was attacked on April 12, 1861. Union supply ships arrived but didn't go to the fort because it was surrounded by Confederates. One Confederates attacking the fort was General Beauregard and General Anderson was a Union general in the fort. Fort Sumter surrenderd and the only casualty was a Union horse. This attack started the Civil War. -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a secret group of trails, hide outs, and houses that took slaves from all over in the south to norhern free states. Some people let runaway slaves hide in their houses even though it was illegal. Slavery ended on December 18, 1863 and the Underground Railroad also ended in 1863.
