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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was not underground, or even a railroad. The word underground meant secretive, so no one would know about it unless part of it. They called it a railroad because they use hidden meaning in railroad word, such a conductor( Someone who lead slaves north) and passenger( A Fugitive slave). The Underground railroad is made of paths and stations which are houses where fugitives could hide in the day. Where these routes and houses were was not just random. -
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Undergound Railroad Part 2
The routes where threw the safest places and about regional attitudes about slavery and escaping slaves. These routes are very thought out and planned. -
Missouri Compromise
On March 3rd 1820 congress passed the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise is all about how Missouri wanted to become a Slave state but congress did not want another slave state to disturb the balance of free and slave state. So, Congress tried to say that only if there was no slaves in Missouri, but slave owners had already moved there so the were slaves there. So, a Congressman named James Tallmadge proposed that no more slaves could come into Missouri and all slaves there would be -
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free to go at 25 years old, this was so that both the north and south got something. The north got slaves freed, but the south still got some slave labor. William Pinkney , a Senator from Maryland, said that that if these new states had to have special conditions to become states, that they would not be equal to old ones, because the old states did not have any special rules and every state is equal.Tallmadge’s idea was shot down the Senate, but passed in the house. So, a man named Henry Clay -
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Proposed the 36’ 30’ line, it only applied to the Louisiana Territory,all sated but Missouri above the line would be free, all below would be slave. We also gained maine out of this compromise, so Missouri joined as a slave state and Maine as a free state
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David Walker
David Walker is a free black man, his father was a slave and mother was a free woman, so he get his mother's freedom. He Moved to Massachusetts, where he then lived. while there he did work as an abolitionist. His idea to end slavery was violence, he said “if liberty is not given you, rise up in bloody rebellion.” He wrote a pamphlet called Walker's Appeal, this pamphlet helped inspire Nat Turner's Rebellion. -
David Walker Part 2
The Pamphlet then was outlawed, but he still got to slaves, he sowed it in the clothes in his store. He had a bounty put on him, 1,000 if dead and 10,000 if alive. He was found dead on August 6th, 1830 in the streets of Massachusetts. -
Nat Turner Reebllion
The Nat Turner Rebellion was on August 22nd and 23rd, it was a Rebellion lead by Nat Turner. he lead 60 to 70 slaves and waged a little battle back to the white slave owners. They killed 60 Plantation owners, and their families. This rebellion took place in Ampton Virginia. The rebellion scared all the white slave owners so they retaliated. They killed and beat many slave accusing them of being part of the rebellion even if they were not. This was to scare the slaves into never having another. -
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got $5 for saying or she was free, and $10 for saying slave. Many free blacks moves to Canada. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
On January 4th, 1854 Stephen Douglas Proposed a bill called the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Kansas-Nebraska Act says that we should forget the 36’ 30’ for these Territories and let them chose out of popular sovereignty. The idea behind the act was that with those to being states he could make his home state of Illinois the railroad hub of the nation. this was he would also not make the south angry too when he ran to be president in the election of 1860. -
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He thought this way they would still become free states because they were not states that could really support slavery. After President Franklin Pierce signed the bill into law he learned that he was wrong, with the summer of Bleeding Kansas. -
Bleeding Kansas
On May 21st, 1856 The first big act of violence happened in Lawrence, pro-slavery supporter attacked and looted the town. and in response to that John Brown, Beat 5 pro-slavery Men to death with Broadswords in front of their families. these attacks happened because after the Kansas-Nebraska Act pro and anti-slavery supporters moved there to vote, tensions rose between them till the fighting began. this fighting continued for 3 months. finally the territories were called free states. -
Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott case is about a slave named dred scott who lived in the free state of Illinois for 12 years, because of this he thought he was a free man. so when his master tried to take him back he said no, and tried to sue for his freedom. this sue went all the way to the supreme court. at the supreme court they said no,that african-Americans are not people and Are property and by the 5th amendment you can take your property where ever you want to, and the court cannot say anything. -
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This decision was come to on March 6th, 1857. because of it, the 36’30’ line was erased. -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
The Attack on Harpers Ferry was Lead by John Brown on October 16th 1859. This attack was on an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He thought that slaves would rally to him, and when they did he was going to arm them and head south. when they got to the south they were going to take out slavery with a huge rebellion. He turned out to be wrong, and no slaves showed up. Virginia troops lead by Robert E. Lee captured John Brown and killed two of his sons. John Brown was hanged because of this. -
Compromise of 1850
On January 29th, 1850 Henry Clay presented the Compromise of 1850, the compromise said that California would be a free state, no more slave trade in Washington D.C., and The Fugitive Slave Act. The fugitive slave act says that any runaway slave that was found, must be returned to their owner. The Fugitive Slave as made abolitionists want to end slavery even more. the act also made a new job, called a commissioner. a commissioner's job was to to tell is a slave was a runaway or a free man, they -
Presidential Election of 1860 Part 2
Breckinridge won all the southern states. The south was furious that they did not win with all of them voting for the same guy. so they started to seceed. -
Presidential Election of 1860
On November 6th 1860 the Republican Abraham Lincoln won the Presidency. he won without a single southern vote. he needed 152 electoral votes to win and he got 180. A southern Democrat named John C. Breckinridge was the runner up with 72 electoral votes. along with Stephen A. Douglas, a democrat with 12, And John Bell, a member of the Constitutional Union party with 39. Lincoln won all the northern states votes,CA and OR. Douglas got MO, and Bell Got the border states.
