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Frederick Douglass
he wrote the "north star" and the "liberator" -
Missouri Compromise
This compromise was an effort to keep the balance in Congress between slave and free states. It stated that anything north of the 36' 30" would be free and anything south would be slave states. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Turner went to Jerusalum and the "whites" heard that he was going to start a rebellion. Several of the rebels were captured. The remaining force then met the state and federal troops in final skirmish, in which one slave was killed and many escaped, including Turner. In the end, the rebels had stabbed, shot and clubbed at least 55 white people to death. -
Dred Scott Case
The decision of the court was read in March of 1857.Chief Justice Roger B. Taney came up with the " majority opinion". It stated that because Scott was black he was not a citizen and he had no right to sue. -
Underground Railroad
i chose this date because it was the start of the fugitive slave act. it stated that slaves had to be returned to the south. therefor the underground railroad was used to get to canada after it was used for slaves to get to the north -
The Compromise of 1850
This compromise allowed Northern California to join the Union as a free state. In the South the land received from Mexico was broken up into two states, New Mexico and Utah. In these states the settlers could decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery or not. This compromise over ruled the compromise of 1820 by fading the 36' 30" line. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Bleeding Kansas
This was after the kansas-nebraska act -
Presidential Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln John Breckinridge John Bell and Stephen Douglas were the canidates. Lincoln won he had 180 votes but no southern votes. the south didn't agree with his plan to not allow slavery to expand. -
South Carolina Secedes from the Union
Abraham's Election effected this. The south did not agree with Abraham Lincoln's idea to stop the spread of slavery.
