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Fugitive Slave Act
A law enacted as part of the compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned bondage. -
Missouri Comptomise
A series laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the balanced of power between slave states and free states -
Harriet Tubman
She was a slave in Maryland in 1820 or 1821. She had an injury when she was a young girl. In 1849 her home owner passed away.thats when she decided to make a break for freedom and succeeded in reaching Philadelphia shortly after the fugitive slave Act Tuban resolved to become a conductor on the underground railroad. The escape routes. She made a trips back to south saved 300 slaves. -
Wilmot Proviso
A amendment to 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery. -
The 31st Congress of 1849
It opened of statehood for California topped agenda and the border dispute which Texas the slave state state claimed Eastern half of New Mexico terriority which wasnt sedttled North and South added fue. Northerns demanded abolition of slavery in District of Columbia, while Southerns accused North of failing to enforce Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. Also threats of Southern secession, the formal withdrawl of a state from the union. -
The Compromise of 1850
A serious of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreement between free states and slave states. It was more elements to the compromise such as popular sovereighty. The residence of a territory should have control over their own affairs particulary power to decide weather to admit slavery. Northerns was happy about the compromise that allowed the resident New Mexico and Utah P.S. the rights -
Unde Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin. That portrayed slavery as a great moral evil strived strong reactions from Northerns and Southerns alike. -
The Kansas- Nebraska Act
Law, enacted in 1854, that established the territories of kansas and nebraska and gave decided weather to allow slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
A name applied to Kansas terrority in the years before the civil war, when the terrority was a battle ground between proslavery and antislavery forces.Antislavery had formed a town called Lawrence. A proslavery condemned Lawrence inhabitants as traitors and called 800 armed men.Burned the headquarters destory two newspaper presses and looted many houses and stores. Abolitionist newspaper dubbed the event ''The sack of Lawrence".The news soon reached John Brown and antislavery fanatic,who killed -
Beating of senator Charles
Charles summer delivered on speech in the senate entitled "The crime against Kansas" he verbally attached his colleagues for their support of salvary. May 22 butler nephew walked into the senate chamber to over summer desk. Butler nephew until the csne broke. Southerns applauded Butler nephew
