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Abolitionist Movement
This was the main Movement to abolish slavery in the United States. the movement was fueled by free blacks like Fredrick Douglass and by white supporters as well, such as Willian Lloyd Garrison, who owned an abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator". -
Nat Turners rebellion
Nat Turner led the most brutal slave rebellion in US history. Him and his supporters killed white slave owners and families and freed slaves as they went. In total, they gained around 60 slaves and killed around 60 whites. -
Mexican-American War won by America
The Mexican American war ended with a treaty signed by Mexico and America. This treaty, called the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, caused The Mexican territories to secede to America. This included the states of New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and western Colorado. After this treaty was signed the slavery debate resurfaced as the new territories weren't free nor slave. -
Compromise of 1850
This compromise awarded California to America as a free state. It also banned the sale of slaves in DC, opened the new land from Mexico to slave owners, and enforced a new fugitive slave law , -
Uncle Toms Cabin is released
This book showed Americans the story of a slave, a point of view they may not have seen before. after the year was over more that 300,000 copies were sold. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act mandated that a popular vote would be held to determine if territories were free or slave. This act would repeal the Missouri compromise as these territories would be passed the boundary line. -
Dred Scott decision
The Dred Scott v. Sandford case debated whether or not Dred Scott would be free since he was in the north, a free. the court ruled that since Dred was a slave (property) he couldn't sue for his freedom -
Harriet Tubman escapes
After escaping from her plantation, Minty (Harriet) fled to the north. after being there for some time and earning money, she headed back to the south to rescue the rest of her family. she continued to bring escaped slaves to the north for 10 years bringing around 300 former slaves to the north. -
Southern states begin to secede
Around late 1860/early 1861 southern states started to secede from the U.S, the first being South Carolina. By June 8th, 1861, all other southern states had seceded from the US and formed the Confederate States of America. -
Emancipation Proclaimation
This document proclaimed that all slaves are free in the seceded states if the Union won the Civil War. It also stated that blacks could serve in the military adding around 200,000 soldiers to the union.
