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Slavery in the south
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The Underground Railroad
This was when the Underground Railroad was first given its name. The Underground Railroad was a network of many different and secret routes and safe houses established in the U.S. This system was used by enslaved African Americans in order to escape into free states and from there into Canada. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
The Nat Turner Rebellion led the most brutal slave rebellion in United States history. That attracted up to 75 slaves and killing 60 white people. This ended up in a massacre of up to 200 black people and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people. -
The Gag Rule
House had passed a resolution that automatically "tabled," or postponed any action on all petitions relating to slavery without even hearing them. So it prohibited any discussions and debates of the anti slavery petitions. -
The Amistad Case
It was a slave revolt that was aboard the Amistad which had resulted in the 1841 United States Supreme Court decision affirming that the schooner's African captives were free individuals with the right to resist "unlawful" slavery. The district court judge had rules that the Africans were not Spanish slaves, being captured as free men in Africa. They then ordered the U.S to release them from prison and then transport them back to Africa. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 had brought California into the United States as a free state but then banned public sale of slaves in the District of Columbia. It opened up the rest of the lands seized from Mexico to settlement by slave owners, and committed the United States government to enforcement of a new fugitive slave law. This was also a package of 5 separate bills that were passed by the U.S congress. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Uncle Toms Cabin is a anti slavery novel that sold 300000 copies in the United States by the years end. “Tom shows” are dramatizations that are based on the plot of the novel and they were widely preformed by different traveling companies into the 20th century. This spread common stereotypes of African Americans. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas or also known as Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri. This occurred between 1854 and 1859. It had emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. -
The Kansas - Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act had mandated that the popular vote of the settlers would determine if territories were able to become free or slave states. The newly-formed Republican Party had vowed to prevent new slave states and then quickly became the majority party in nearly every northern state. -
Dred Scott
In the Dred Scott v. Sandford case the United States Supreme Court had ruled that black people were not citizens of the United States and denied Congress the ability to prohibit slavery in any federal territory. Dred Scott was an enslaved African American and had sued for the freedom of him and his family. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation this had made it clear that a Union victory in the Civil War would end up meaning the end of slavery in the United States. So this proclamation declared that all people that were held as slaved within the rebellious states were made free.