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Nat Turner (Before the civil war)
Nat Turner grew up on a plantation in Virginia. His mother taught him to hate slavery, and due to this he organized and planned an uprising. This occurred on August 21. They killed 55 whites, in 48 hours. Later Nat Turner and 16 others were captured and hung in November of 1831. -
Gag Rule
Congress met and passed the gag rule in 1836, which caused the House of Representatives to not be able to talk about slavery or pass anything dealing with slavery. -
Fredrick Douglass Escapes
Fredrick was a former slave who escaped through the Underground Railroad. He became an active abolishionist, and wrote many autobiographies. -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a system of Railroad that helped nearly 100,000 slaves escape from the sought to the north, most of whom went to Canada or way north America. -
The Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
It is a book that sheds light on African American women and how they were taken advantage of. Hundreds of thousands of copies were sold throughout the world. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
This act recognized Kansas and Nebraska as states, and gave them the opportunity to either be a free state or a slave state. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave who argued his case that he should be free because he is a slave in a free slave state. The case went to the Supreme Court and he was ruled still a slave because he is property. -
Lincoln is Elected
Abe Lincoln was elected president. He was an abolishionist who very much didn't like slavery. -
"Bleeding" Kansas
The bill became law on May 30, 1854. Nebraska was so far north that its future as a free state was never in question. But Kansas was next to the slave state of Missouri. In a time period that would come to be known as "Bleeding Kansas," the territory would become a battleground over the slavery question.
