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the compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a set of bills passed in Congress which tried to settle the issue of enslavement, which was about to split the nation.Yet the Compromise of 1850 served its purpose. For a time it kept the Union from splitting, and it essentially delayed the outbreak of the Civil War for a decade. -
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events that happend during that time
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Treaty of Kanagawa
Treaty of Kanagawa is signed. The treaty opened Japan up for trade, after considerable pressure from the United States. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was devised as a compromise over enslavement in 1854, as the nation was beginning to be torn apart in the decade before the Civil War. Power brokers on Capitol Hill hoped it would reduce tensions and perhaps provide a lasting political solution to the contentious issue. Opposition to it changed the political landscape across the nation it also had a profound effect on Abraham Lincoln, whose political career was revitalized by his opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln held a series of seven debates in Illinois while running for a U.S. Senate seat. Douglas won the election, but the debates elevated Lincoln, and his anti-slavery views, to national prominence. Newspaper stenographers wrote down the content of the debates, and portions that were published in newspapers introduced Lincoln to an audience outside of Illinois. -
after emma is sold
master butler yells at sarah and tries to hit her because sarah is mad that he sold emma but she runs behind mattie and will who emma 's parents and they both hate master butler as well because they thought that he as nice and wouldnt do this to them. after this it cuts to a later memory of sarah in the future where master butler is on his deathbed and sarah cant even say i love you to her dying dad -
the second biggest slave auction
we are introduced to Emma the main character where she is worrying about the slave auction their attending. -
setting up the importance of emma
we learn that emma is a maid for master butler who was left by his wife to go to the north and is the caretaker and motherly figure to master butler's two kids sarah and francis -
at the slave auction
master butler sells emma to mrs.Henfield -
emma meets joe
joe is emma's love interest in the story and after they meet they start dating and joe asks emma to marry him but emma doent want a child to be born a slave so they start talking about escaping. emma finally agrees to marry joe if they escape -
they escape
joe emma Charles and his family sampson tries to stop them form escaping but charles punches him and they escape and burn the barn down -
they find out who helped the slaves escape
jermiah is someone that helped emma joe and charles and his family escape but later he is questioned by Mistress Henfield and Pendle he lies but it was a bad lie so they dpread news that jeriah helped so he was forced to move away from the south away from his boat business -
john bown
abolitionist and activist John Brown was hanged for treason. His death energized many sympathizers in the North, and made him a martyr. In the North, people mourned and church bells tolled in tribute. In the South, people rejoiced. -
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days of tears
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after they escape
they get to experience first hand in Philadelphia the difference of the north and the south from the way they're treated -
a family is broken after the escape
Charles and his wife stop being a family because their kid died while escaping and the wife blames Charles for the death -
emma meets master butlers wife
she meets Fanny and they talk but she warns emma and joe about the Fugitive Slave Act which also allows for the authorities to arrest
a runaway slave. emma also asks how sarah and francis are doing -
The Crittenden Compromise
The Crittenden Compromise was a unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery in the United States Constitution, and thereby make it unconstitutional for future congresses to end slavery. It was introduced by United States Senator John J. Crittenden -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is Nominated President , Lincoln's election for President was followed by South Carolina's succession from the Union. Its senators had resigned from Congress and several of the Southern states were looking to leaving it as well. -
2nd Maori War Begins
The Second Maori war was fought from 1860-1872 between British colonist and native New Zealanders on the North Island. At the end of the largely guerrilla war the natives were granted half the island. -
The Beginning of the Civil War
The Confederate States of America were formed by South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and Texas, and joined by Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and North Carolina, and it was the Confederacy's attack on Fort Sumter that starts the Civil War. -
Virginia
Virginia is Divided Into Two , With Western Virginia going to the Union and driving out its Confederate soldiers, the state of Virginia becomes two separate states. General McClellan tells Abraham Lincoln that the West Virginians were not in support of the Ordinance of Secession. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a document signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on 1863, freeing the enslaved and held in the states in rebellion against the US. The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation did not free a great many of enslaved in a sense, as it couldn't be enforced in areas not in the control of Union troops. However, it signaled an important clarification of the government's policy toward enslavement, which had been evolving since the outbreak of the Civil War. -
Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was a battle in the war, with a invasion of a northern state (from Maryland to Pennsylvania). Some 23,000 Union soldiers and over 20,000 Confederate soldiers were killed by the end of the third day. -
slavery elsewhere
Slavery ends in Dutch ruled Indonesia. -
civil war causes problems for Russia
The US civil war has cut Russia off from its primary source of cotton. Cotton growing in Central Asia has become of greater importance to the Russians, and Russia sends its military into Central Asia, where people are sparse, largely tribal, economically undeveloped, and Muslim. -
Alaska
Alaska was bought from Russia for $7 million -
Meiji Restoration
The Meiji restoration began when the newly established emperor Mutsuhito ousted the shogante of the Tokugawaw clan that had ruled Japan since 1603. The new emperor restored direct imperial rule of Japan. The Mutsuhito began the modernization of Japan. -
after everything
fanny helps joe and emma go to canada and emma names he child with joe sarah and sarah names hher chiled emma to honor the importance of each other later we find out that they write each other one from canada and the other from the us, we also find out that joe died in the civil war trying to free the slaves emma still misses him and has conversations in the kitchen with joe even after he passed.