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The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise said that Utah and New Mexico can vote of slavery ,and the traiding or selling of slaves is forbedin in the district of colmbia. this provided popular soverty in Utah and New Mexico. -
Underground Rail Road
The Underground Rail Road was a network of houses adn people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, They used blankets , songs and lights for the way to the next house. Harriot tubman was the conducter of the rail road adn made 19 trips and died on her last trip for her way back for her husband. -
Personal Liberty law
This law goes against the Fugitive slave act. This law says that slaves can have a jury adn can testify for them selves. This made people return slaves more frequntly becasue the price would go up . This also caused violence. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
This Act said that slaves are not entitled to a trial and could not testify for themselfs, becasue if the slaves could not teastify for themselfs that measn that there is always a peice missing from the story adn they staory was one sided. This made the people go against the act adn make the persoal liberty law. -
Harriet Beacter Stowe
The author of the book "Uncle Toms Cabin" which was against slavery. This caused contoversy on slavery htey called her the little women who cased war. -
The Kanas Nebraska Act
This repealed the missoirie compromise and allows territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, allowing white male settlers in those territories . popular sovereignty was to be decided from the settlers. -
bleeding kanas
This was the border of War, it was a series of violent political fights in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery . the this led to the sack of lawrence. -
The Sack of Lawrence
800 men sweapt into kansas. They burned down Antislavery head quarters and resoarted to violence . This was because of the pottawatomie Massacare. -
The Pottawatomie Massacar
THis massar was by John Brown, he was antislavery. He killed all the proslavery people, this started the "bleeding Kansas" -
Hapers ferry
this ws the start of an armed slave revolt in 1859 by Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, there was 21 men in his party. Brown had asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, both of who he met in his passed years as an abolitionist in Springfield. the deciled due to illness .
