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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad is a network of people who helped lead fugitive slaves to freedom in canada. Slaves would use the north star and other symbols to lead them to the north while trying to get past slave catchers or other pro-slavery persons. -
Missouri Compromise
In Febuary 1819 James Tallmadge introduced the bill. At this time there was 11 free states and 10 Slaves states. Later that year Alabame was added into statehood which balanced out the senate but then the issue over missouri was brought up so they decided to come up with a compromise. That compromise stated that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would become a free state. -
David Walker
Was an anit-slavery abolitionist who settled in Boston and wrote the most famous anti-slavery document "the Appeal." was involved in the making of the nations first black news paper "Freedoms Journal" -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
In 1831 Nat Turner thought he was chosen by god to lead a rebellion. Later that year Turner and about 7 other slaves attacked and killed the Travis family. About 70 other slaves joined the rebellion and all together they killed about 60 whites -
Compromise of 1850
This document consists of 5 laws that were past. First was the fugative slave act which stated that any persons that did not arrest an alleged runaway would be fined $1000. People thought to be a runaway could be arrested without warrant or turned in to a slave catcher for a reward. They also abolished slave trade in the nations capital. Finally it also admitted california into the union. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether of not to allow slavery within their borders. After the act was passed, pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters rushed in to settle Kansas to affect the outcome of the first election held there after the law went into effect. violence soon erupted. -
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas was nicknamed "Bleeding Kansas" because of the violence and death toll rise during the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The fighting in Kansas was between Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery persons -
Dred Scott Case
Scott claiming that his residence in free territory made him a free man. His master then stated that "no pure-blooded Negro of African descent and the descendant of slaves could be a citizen" Back then they saw slaves at property instead of real living people. -
Presidential Election of 1860
This election was between Abraham Lincon and John C. Beckinridge. Abraham won the election without any votes from the southern states. This caused rage in the south and it therefore caused the state of South Carolina to secede from the Union. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
This is the battle that started the Civil War. It started when
