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escaped slaves
John Fairfield Levi Coffin and Harriet Tubman were some of the most know people to help slaves across the borders into the north or Canada and helped almost 4,000 slaves -
a uprising in the south
a slave named Nat Turner to free slaves by attacking plantation and killing 60 white people -
black code
slaves could not group up earn money or grow crops for themselves -
moving west for gold and more cotten
the expansion to the west happened because of gold being found in California or what was to be California this caused southern states to expand west ward with slaves to grow cotton. -
The California gold rush
almost 4,000 enslaved Africans are moving to participate in the gold rush. -
1850 compromise trying to stop slavery spending
The compromise prevented further expansion of slavery while making the Fugitive Slave Act stronger, a law which showed Northerners to capture and return escaped slaves to the South. -
war Begins
the election of Aberham Lincoln is the tipping point in the 5 southern states leaving the union. -
uncle toms cabin (a good selling book)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the second-best-selling book in America in the 19th century, second only to the Bible. Its popularity brought the issue of slavery. -
dread Scott
The United States Supreme Court rules in the dred scott case that African-Americans freed and enslaved are not citizens of the United States. -
Aberham Lincoln
this was the point in which the south thought slavery was going to be abolished and decided to leave the union and so they did -
south Carolina considers leaving the union
The people thought that in the election Abraham was going to pass act that stops slavery and considers leavening the union because slavery was there way of life. -
the Emancipation Proclamation
Aberham Lincoln has now passed a law stating all slaves are free and slaves along the border states are free
