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Ships were sent to Africa to take the people from their homes to come to America to be slaves. It started with purchasing 20 African servants from the Dutch, it didn't take long for Africans to be stolen from their homes after doing no harm. -
The Missouri Compromise was the act in which Missouri was admitted to a slave state and Maine was admitted to a free state. The government created a 36*30 line which made states above it free and below it slave having. This enraged both sides leading to tension. -
Nat Turner was a slave who created a rise to white people. He and 54 other slaves killed about 60 whites. Most slaves, plus 200 more, were either lynched or just plain executed. -
Started by Robert Purvis, the Underground Railroad was a way for slaves to escape to freedom. Freed slaves and supportive whites helped others run and they developed hundreds of ways to go. Slaves escaping made the South more angry, and then they wanted more slaves. -
At the end of the Mexican-American War, David Wilmot proposed this piece of legislation to abolish slavery. Wilmot traveled, showing his plan off for 2 years, denied by all. He ended up stopping and his sanity was questioned. -
Learning from Wilmot, Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas formed a compromise to appease the nation. They would make California a free state and they wouldn't regulate slavery. This postponed violence, but it was still coming -
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book about slave life. This shows what they were really going through, the South thought they were protesting. This proved what the North was moved by and made the South mad, which drove the nation apart. -
After the Nebraska/Kansas Territory was settled, there was drama around Kansas becoming a free state, or a slave state. They ended up being a slave state, and the South was upset by this because of the 36*30 line separating the slave states from the free states. -
When John Brown came just past Pottawatomie Creek, there was Senator Sumner. Brown and his crew killed him and his whole family that night, this was near the end of Bleeding Kansas and was decided to cave shortly after. -
Dred Scott tried to sue Virginia for his freedom. He moved from a slave state to a free state, and his master moved back to a slave state and tried to take Dred. He lost his case because he was deemed "not a person and didn't have the right to sue as such." The north was upset by this. -
Lincoln and Douglas had very different views on slavery. Lincoln wanted it demolished, and Douglas wanted it to remain the same. Douglas won the debate leading him to be eligible for election in 1860. -
After Pottawatomie, Brown began planning for the next big act of violence. He and 19 supporters raided the Federal armory at Haper's Ferry. There were 17 casualties before brown and the crew got captured. Brown ended up being hung. -
Lincoln won the election. The South was enraged. The South had 3 separate choices and the North only had him, so, he won the majority. -
South Carolina made itself a nation in spite of Lincoln's trying to abolish slavery. They declared independence which started to brew more tension. -
After Carolina seceded, the other southern states followed. They deemed themselves a nation and called themselves 'The Confederacy'. The North was angered and started conflict.