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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad wasn't underground nor a railroad. The Underground Railroad was a secret route and had safe houses for salves. It helped slaves escape to the freedom of the fourteen northern states or "the promise land" of Canada. -
Invention of The Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney made the cotton gin to make collecting cotton easier and faster for the people.What it did was you put cotton in one side and then crank it and the cotton would go through it and get rid of all the seeds in the cotton. This made it a quicker process and also increased slavery demands. He passed a patent on the cotton gin which he applied for October 28, 1793. It was granted on March 14,1794, but was not validated until 1807. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was passed by congress granting Missouri as a slave state and having Maine as a free state. They drew an imaginary line, separating the free states and slave states. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner was an African American leader for the slaves that wanted to rebel. Nat and his group killed around 60 white men, women, and children on the night of August 21. They ended up getting caught and being executed. Blacks were randomly killed, some were beheaded and left on the side of the road to alert others. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave with an owner who was an army doctor. His owner often spent a lot of time in Illinois and Wisconsin, which were both free states. Scott wasn't considered free in both of those states because blacks weren't considered people. Dred Scott went to trial, suing for his freedom. Ten years later, it was finally brought up. Africans weren't considered citizens of the United Sates, therefore he couldn't sue. -
Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso wanted to make an end to slavery. It prohibited slavery from the United States from Mexico and later turned into the Mexican- American War. Proviso's plan passed in the House, but failed with the Senate. -
The Compromise of 1850
Divisions over slavery in territory gained in the Mexican-American (1846-48). War was resolved in the Compromise of 1850. It made California a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular demand. Ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves to have or to not have slavery in their state borders. It also repealed Missouri Compromise of 1820 which did not allow slavery north of latitude 36 30 . -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of brutality in the United States. The conflict was between the pro-slavery and anti- slavery. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown was a leader of a group that were against a federal armory, in his group were his five sons. They attempted to destroy the institution of slavery. On March 25, the Browns' attacked three cabins. John's group began to grow, they rented a farm in Maryland and started to get ready for the assault. On the night of the attack ten of his men were killed, including two of his sons. -
Election of 1860
In which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. The election split between Northern and Southern Democrats the split was particularly over slavery. The months following Lincoln's election seven southern states led by South Carolina on Dec. 20, 1860, left the nation setting the stage for the American Civil War. -
Secession of Southern States
After the Civil War began in April, four slave states Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. The government of the United States rejected the claims of secession and considered the Confederacy to be breaking the law. Ended on May 9,1865.
