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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a big question, what states should be free and which states should allow slavery. This was a problem because slave owners had already moved there.These slave owners also were not happy because they wanted states to pick which were free and which were slave states.Then after the debating Missouri became a slave state as long as Maine was a free state. This made both sides, free and slave,happy and they agreed any state above the 36'30' was to be free. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turners Rebellion was about a man who wanted slaves to uprise and be free. He and about 60 other men killed his slave master and his family. Then they moved on to other slave holder families. In the end he was caught and was hung.The other men went on trial and were killed. After this many white people went and killed slaves to prove they were inferior to the blacks. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland, and because she was born a slave there is no way of know what day. There for I chose September 17, of 1849. This was the day Harriet and her two brothers, Ben and Henry, escaped from slavery. Once Harriet became free she decided to go back to the south and bring inslaved people to the North. After a while people started to call her "Moses". Around this time Harriet was bring people to the North, the Undergound Railroad (next event) -
Harriet Tubman (2)
was in full effect. Which ment that this would be a very hard job but, people would be helping her along the way. In 10 years she was said to have made 19 trips and brought back over 300 people. During these trips she hadn't lost a single person. Harriet had also brought along a gun with her on the adventers. She did this because if a slave got scared and wanted to go back she would point the gun at them and say, "You'll be free or die doing it." or " Dead Negroes tell no tales.". -
Harriet Tubman (3)
After a while Harriet Tubman became known in the North for her work with the Undergound Railroad, and started to publicly speek at anti-slavery and woman's rights meetings. After a while Harriet selled down in Auburn, New York and died there on March 10,1913 when she was 93 years old. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 is about mainly states coming into the union. This started when California wanted to become a state. This was a problem because there was a even number between free and slave states. After a lot of debating, congress passed a compromise. This compromise stated that , California would be entered into the union as a free state, and the South would be granted the "Fugitive Slave Law".This law made many people want to fight against slavery,(next event) -
Compromise of 1850 part 2
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act said that the people in the land of Kansas and Nebraska could decide whether or not to have slavery in the territories. -
Bleeding-Kansas
Bleeding-Kansas was a bloody, horrible, clash between proslavery and anti-slavery people. This clash took place during the time when the north wanted the states Kansas and Nebraska to be free, but the south wanted other wise. This caused an outbrake between the two. This is known as Bleeding-Kansas. -
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Dred Scott was a man who filed a law suit aganist his ower. He did this because his owner had once taken him and his wife into the North, there for he believed he was free. Dred went to court and lost 7 to 2 in votes. Chief Justice Roger Taney said that Scott was an inferior race which to him ment he was property and had no rights.After this case the government had no power to keep slavey from spreding into the north.This case also got rid of the Missouri compromise. -
Presidentail Election of 1860
On November 6,1860 Abraham Lincoln took office as are 16th President. It wasn't a easy journy to get this spot but Lincoln had gotten 180 votes from the North only to win. The other canadites such as John Breckinridge who was for the South and had wanted to spred slavery to the North. John Bell who was for the border states but, also had wanted to spred slavery to Northern states. Stephen Douglas, who was for Missouri,and Southern New Jersey. (next event.) -
Presidential Election of 1860 (part 2)
was willing to allow states to pick slavery or freedom for their state. Lastly was Abraham Lincoln who was for the North and two western states. He had moderent views on slavery, this ment he knew slavery was very importent for the south if they wanted to keep product coming but, didn't want it to spred. The winning canidate was obvious if you looked at the poles. Breckinridge had 61 votes, Bell had 37, Douglas had 12 and Lincoln had 180. (next event) -
Presidential Election of 1860 (part 3)
It wasn't all about the votes that made this election worth watching. During this time the people of the U.S needed a president who could handle this country during a hard time. The Civil War. This War was about to seperate our country into two. The president who would be chosen would need to do whats right but also make sure this country stays together. Even though only the Northern part of the U.S voted for Lincoln,we now see that without this great leader, our country could of been in two. -
Attack on Fort Sumter (2)
or worse get their supplies. The Union surrendered after a white flag was raised over the fort. This attack had started the Civil War. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
On April 12 in 1861 Union Genral Anderson was told he had to agree to the terms givin to him by Cofederate General Beauregard, he was going to get fired on. He gave him till 4:00 A.M to figuar out what to do.At 4:30 A.M Fort Sumter was fired apon. Lincoln sent Union supply ships which had not attemted to go to Fort Sumter because Fort Sumter was on a island which was surrounded by confederate forts and gun batteries. They also knew if they tried they would be fired apon (next event) -
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a secret network of people, places,and routes in the North that helped slaves escape to freedom. This system of whites helping blacks made people very upset, but people such as abolitionists,free blacks, and former runaway slaves didn't care. These People were all about freedom wanting for all men and woman to be created equal. The Underground Railroad wasn't just one, but many places. These "safe homes" or "stations" were located all over the place. (next event.) -
The Underground Railroad (part 3)
This would tell a station master that a slave had runaway and needed help. But if a slave didn't get welcomed with a response they were to run as fast as they could. The Underground Railroad doesn't have an exact date. But I chose this date because this is one of the first time some one had talked about it. The Underground Railroad might not have a starting date it did end when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which in January 1,1863 the slaves were free after the Civil War. -
The Underground Railroad (part 2)
A black would know when the house they were arriving at was safe. How did they know this? Well "station masters" as they called the owners of the safe houses, would for example put a candle in the window, or leave a quilt at night sitting outside. These little sings told slaves it was safe for them to knock on the door. Sometimes people who wanted to turn slaves in would leave these items out, so a slave would say something along the lines of " a friend of a friend sent me".(next event)
