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Harriet Tubman & the underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman literally paved the way for slaves to ecape the south. She angered many whites because she casued them to lose millions because of the missing slaves. Ms. Tubman was a hero, after she got out of slavery she came back to help others get out. Ironically when she died Rosa Parks was born... the sprit lives on. -
Invention of the Cotton Gin
The creation of the cotton gin was very impactful, it caused for the mass production of extracting cotton. Before its was invented slave owners used slaves to pull the cotton apart, but with their manual labar it took a day only to extract one pound of cotton. The gin made it possible for the cotton land owners to be able to produce a lot more cotton in a shorter amount of time. -
Missouri Compromise
the rise of tensions began between pro-slavery and anti-slavery across the country. They reached the breaking point after Missouri’s 1819 request to the Union to become a slave state, which threatened to upset the balance between slave states and free states. -
Free-Soil Party
political party that came into existence in 1847–48 chiefly because of rising opposition to the extension of slavery into any of the territories. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was created in the attempt to make a 'win win' situation for the North and South. In favor of the south the compromise had the fugitive Slave Act, which meant that southern slave owners could come to the north, and basically bring back free slaves if they accused them of being runaways. While in the North's favor it made California a free state, which in this time it was a gold rush. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of 1850. It stated that slave owners from the south could come to the north and reclaim slaves that they deemed had ran away. This pushed the north even hard to abolish slavery. This was a major turning point toward the Civil War. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a novel written about slavery by Harriet Beecher Slowe. This was a very powerful novel because it gave the northens a vivid idea of life on a southern platation. Now they could actually see the cruel hardships of slavery almost right infornt of them by this book.Once it was printed it spread like wild fire. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill allowed settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. -
Bleeding Kansas
The beginnig of the phase bleeding Kansas stems from when a man named Augustus of Iowa proposed a bill to the senate. The bill was to organize the Nabraska terriory. In that process it would turn Kansas into its own state, then the question eurpted of would it be a free state or a slave state. A man known as John Brown went to battle for the slaves, him and his sons took over a armory in hope that slaves would join in on the revolt. This pushed forward for the soon to come Civil War. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This was a supreme court case which argued weather when i slave enters a free state does her or she become free. As well do they get granted Constitional rights such as the right to sue. In the end the slave owner Sandford won the case. which also casued more intense harm to slaves because they dared chanllenge the master. -
The Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was a very intense election, mostly because which ever presidental canididate that did win would have to take over the white house in this extreme time. Lincoln was the winner of the election but was also known as anti slavery. Right from the start the pro slavery south didnt want anything to do with the north, in fear of them abloishing slavery. Thus was the final count down to the start of a Civil War.
