slavery

  • When slavery started

  • Period: to

    all of the northern states abolished slavery

  • the U.S congress outlawed the African slave trade

  • debate

    there was a debate about the federal government right to restrict slavery
  • underground railroad

    freeing black people and antislavery had began helping those escape from southern plantations to the northern via Underground Railroad
  • Period: to

    abolish slavery

    from 1830's to the 1860's the movement to abolish slavery in America was gaining strength to do so
  • compromise negotiated

    there was a another tenuous compromise to negotiate the resolve the question of slavery in territories
  • slavery increasing

    in just 50 years the slavery population reached nearly 4 million
  • end of slavery

    Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation
  • The END of slavery for good

    he made it official that “slaves within any State, or designated part of a State…in rebellion,…shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”