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Slavery In the South
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground railroad has a big impact of Slavery in the South. This railroad was used to help enslaved people to get out of their slave jobs and to reach freedom. The railroad was helping slaves even though it was against the laws and the people in charge at the time. To add some numbers to this Underground Railroad helped about 25,000-50,000 slaves reach freedom. There were important people who helped this railroad work. It This time period was in 1831. -
Fredrick Douglas
Fredrick Douglas was a writer, orator, abolitionist. Fredrick Douglas was actually a slave himself. Douglas actually used the Underground Railroad to leave and become free when he was enslaves down in the South. In his time he makes letters and books to explain his time as a slave and how terrible it was. Douglas was an intelligent man.During his time he kept trying to change the public eye on blacks compared to the whites. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman is a well known woman in this time of Slavery in the South. My first event was the Underground railroad but Harriet Tubman was one of the most known “conductors” of this railroad. Harriet was actually born into slavery. Her main goal was to help stop slavery that was occurring in the south and thought that enslaved people freedom was really important to her. She finally became a conductor in the year 1850 after coming back to help more enslaved people other than her family. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 explained in an overview and how it impacts this compromise was a series of things that occurred by a U.S. Senator Henry Clay. This compromise was connected to slavery. The Compromise and the Fugitive slave act bounced off of each other. This compromise actually ended the slave trade that was occurring in Washington D.C -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave act was passed by the Congress. This Act had more of a negative side with slaves. Overview of this act was that slaves were forced to return to there owners even if they were technically declared “free” basically responsible for returning slaves. This was an event that helped the civil war happen and occur. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
The Uncle Toms Cabin is a storybook. The main theme of this book was how owners of slaves were treating people as property and not as people. This book was explaining and showing the horrors of being a slave down in the South. This book finally sparked people by having people speak out. This book helped march towards the Civil War. -
Missouri Compromise
This is a compromise that actually occurred during the time period between (1820-1854) This compromise divided the land in the U.S basically in two parts. In the south slavery was accepted and in the north it was forbidden. This event gave division between north and south and in other words separated into free and slave states. This compromise made the south angry because they wanted to keep promoting slavery not have it get taken away. -
Bleeding Kansas
The Bleeding Kansas did contribute to the start of the civil war. An overview of the Bleeding Kansas was with Pro-slavery setters and Abolitionist argued over if Kansas can be free or if it had to be a slave state. They continued to butt heads. Proslavery men of about 600-700 men burned. All of this ended up with a “guerrilla war” that took 200 lives in the state of Kansas. -
Election of 1860
Involved Abraham Lincoln he was a republican candidate at the time of this election. He won over the southern democratic party. This election sparked 7 states down in the south that did not vote for Abraham Lincoln. Eventually in about 2 months the Civil War happened with a certain battle that was named the “Battle of Fort Sumter” Overall Abraham Lincoln did not start the war but his election was a big reason that it broke out in less then a year. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott was enslaved, he fought for freedom and actually towards the end of his life he did get his freedom. He was a guy that traveled with his owner around other states, especially free states. While he was in a free state he tried to sue for his freedom. The result ended in a negative way. This influenced the civil war because it shows that the slavery was not going anywhere
Dred Scott decision caused tension and influenced the American Civil War around the year (1861-65).