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The abolitionist Movement 1830
The movement was an effort to stop the practice of slavery in the country that valued equality. the leaders of the movement usually press to spread the words, like great Britain used to end slavery in 1830, in this movement became a political issue and was threatening the harmony between the North and South. -
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slavery in the south
my timeline explains how slavery impacted the civil war to happen, the south wanted to assert there authority over the government, the government implemented laws and restricted white men to do whatever they wanted to their slaves and the south didn't appreciate that to much. -
The Underground Railroad 1831
The underground railroad was a people who worked together to help runaway slaves travel to free States in Canada where slavery was illegal. Harriet Tubman played a big role in helping slaves, she became the operator of the railroad and helped over 300 slaves to freedom and claim to have never lost a single passenger. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner was a leader of an enslaved African-American group that started out by killing Nat Turner's Master and the whole entire family august 21st 1831 at 2:00 a.m. The group then marched through the Southampton country Virginia murdering around 55 people until white Authority stopped the Revolt this Rebellion led to a series of new laws restricting enslaved people -
The compromise of 1850
The United States wanted to ease tension and balanced the interest of the South who wanted slavery in the North who mostly wanted the free north to prevent the succession of the South that could possibly lead to dissolution of the Union the North ended up having more of a win with the Senate for free States -
The Fugitive Slave Act
This act was for the slave owners to have their slaves return to them if they attempted to run away even if the slaves ran to a free state making the government responsible for runaway slaves. this act was a part of the compromise of 1850 because of the new free state -
Repealing the Missouri Compromise
Missouri compromise was a legislation to have Missouri be a slave state and Maine as a non-slaved state at the same time and not to upset the people they drew a line from east to west of fighting the nation into halves free and not free states ( back to repealing the Missouri Compromise because now we know what it actually was) the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the compromise in a way making the two territories have popular sovereignty -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding cancers with a small Civil war in the US between the pro-slavery and the anti-slavery for control of the new territory of Kansas this battle was violent including murder, Mayhem, and psychological warfare -
The Texas Slave Insurrection Panic
A mass of hysteria and panic started happening in the north and the East leading to a massacre around 100 people who were thinking about planning a conspiracy of coordinated arson enslave rebellions were killed by vigilantes -
Emancipation proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation January 1st for all slaves within rebellious States become free -
13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment declared "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime aware of the party shall and have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction" meaning that slavery is forbidden across the United States on every territory under its control except for being used as a criminal punishment