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Middle Passage was a trade system that was included in the Triangle Trade. Africa sent slave ships to the South for manufactured goods. The slave ships could hold hundreds of slaves. They often separated men, women, and children. -
The Missouri compromise was when the North (Maine) didn't want Missouri to become a slave state. The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820, which states that Missouri is a slave state and Maine is a free state. The Missouri Compromise resolved the first political fight between slavery and antislavery in U.S. history. -
The Underground Railroad was an escape for enslaved people. Although it was called a underground railroad it was not it a house that people would meet up at before taking there trip to free land at night. It was led by Harriet Tubman. She escaped a plantation in Maryland with her two brothers. The slaves usually escaped to the Northern states and Canada. -
Nat turner was a young man enslaved in Virginia. He then became a free man who thought that god wanted him to kill his "masters". The rebellion started with a small group of individuals who ended up killing 55 whites, mostly women and children. Nat Turner went to kill his master first. He killed his masters wife and went back to kill their baby. -
The Compromise of 1850 was 5 separate passed by the US congress that resolved disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States. The main objective of the Compromise of 1850 was to achieve political balance between the North and South. Henry Clay was apart of the Compromise of 1850. -
The Fugitive Slave Clause was a law that said if a person held to service or labor flees to another state to be returned back to his or her master. It was apart of the Compromise of 1850. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin was important because it pushed the debate forward on slavery. It had a huge impact in the North and South. It helped widen the circle of abolitionists. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a national policy change concerning the expansion of slavery into the territories. It was the states decision to become a slave state or free state. -
Dred Scott was born into slavery, but moved with his master to Wisconsin territory, where slavery was not allowed, he was a free man. People didn't want him to be a free man. Supreme court ruled in Dred Scott case. -
The raid caused the South to see the North as attempting to abolish slavery. John Brown and his sons attacked three cabins and killed sixteen people. John Brown was sentenced to death weeks after the event. -
The Emancipation Proclamation declared by President Lincoln which said that all people that are enslaved, shall be forever free. It shifted the aim of the Civil war to freeing the slaves. It led to prevention of European involvement in the war since many Europeans were against slavery.
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