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Undergroud Railroad
The underground railroad was a chain of trails leading up from the south to the north.The most known person for helping her family and friends to the north was Harriet Tubman. She made 20+ trips to the south bring more and more up to the north. But once you get up into the north doesn't mean your safe. Thats why when you pass the boarder the trails and paths would scatter everywhere as far north as possible. Some really wanted to get to Canada because the law in the United States. -
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport Massachusetts. He was a white abolitionist that was the editor of the Philanthropist in Boston. He was jailed for critisizing a merhant incolcing the slave trade. In his life he wrote many newspaper ads. Some of the southerners offered $5,000 for him to be arrested. William burned a copy of the Constitution. On May 24th 1879 William died. William was very good at publishing novels. His most famous newspaper article was "The Liberator". -
The Missouri Compromise
In 1803 the purchase of more than doubled the size of the United States. When the United States bought Missouri congress must decide whether to make Missouri a free state or a slave state. South of the 36’ 30’ markers would be a slave state. Missouri wanted to join the union but that would give the union one more state than the southerners. Congressman James Tallmadge of New York proposed that no more slaves be brought into Missouri, and that the cildren of slaves there will be slaved at age 25. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner was a very intellegent man. Nat has seen visions. He was the leader of the rebellion in Virginia 1831. About 3,000 troops were sent to capture Nat and his followers. Nat was jailed and found guilty and executed by hanging. Plantation owners would be paid back for the slaves that they lost. -
Compromise of 1850
California becomes a free state but their was problems with the unequal amount of free states and slave states. United State Senet has more anti slavery senaters. Land gained from Mexican American War gets to decide whether to have slaves or not. Fugitive Slaves Law says that any run away slaves are to be brought back to their plantation owners. When the slaves where being brought into the south the underground rail road became much more known. -
Bleeding Kansas
Tension in the Kansas territory began when te Kansas-Nebraska bill became law. Antislavery settlers from New England moved to Kansas to try to fight against the Slave Power. Settlers who were commiteted to keeping the terrirtory of Kansas free of slavery were called free soilers. Proslavery settlers from Missouri moved into Kansas to vote illegally in the terrirtory hoping Kansas would become a slave state. The first act of violence was in Lawrence Kansas and started by proslavery supporters. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas introduced the act. The law would make the North and South happy with hime because he wanted to be te president. He wanted the people of the territories to decide whether the area would have slave or not. The South really liked this act because he would not end slavery but let it spred into the west territories. But the North also liked the act because this could gain Nebraska to the North. By saying the South crops would grown there would get him to vote for him in the election. -
Presitential Election
Abraham Lincloln was in the political party the Reulicans and his vice president was Hannibal Hamlin. But Fredrick Douglas was running against him in the election of 1850. The South felt upset since that Abraham Lincoln won the election with no southern votes only northern. This really made the south want to gain independence from the north. When the south separated into to diffrent sections the south gave Fredrick Douglas presidency of the south. -
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was a fort on an island surrounded by confederate forts at the entrences. The harbor was near the city Charleston in South Carolina. There was two rivers draining into the harbor are Cooper and Ashley rivers. The forts at the entrences were Fort Johnson and Fort Moutrie. For 24 hours strait Fort Sumter was bombed nonstop with no help. Abraham Lincoln did not want to picture the country be separated. The bombing of Fort Sumter was the start of the Civil War. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott Decision helped tigger the Civil War. After only 4 years of being a slave Dred wanted to be a free man. He belonged to a army surgent and brought him into the northern states. He lived in the states for only 12 years and people wanted to sew him and try to send him back to the south and given back to his old owner. If he were sent to the south he didnt have to worry about his wife and kids because they were free and would stay free. Dred Scott died a free man.
