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Underground railroad
The Underground Railroad was big chain of people and places that helped fugitive slaves escape to canada there were alot of whites but the were more blacks a big name in the railroad was harriet tubman she helped many many slaves escape. -
Missouri Compromise
when missouri aplied to be a state the entire country was faced with a big question should missouri be a slave state or free state slave holders have already migrated there congressmen James Tallmadge said no more slaves be brought their slaves their be freed at 25 so then their was the 36 30 line all north free all south slaves this was short lived -
Nat Turners Rebellion
in 1831 a slave named at urner led a attack in the south turner and a group of folowers killed sixtey white slave owners and their familesturner and and 16 of his followers were exicuted after this a man named thomas gray wrote a book called confessions of nat turner which he qoutes and says that nat turner said he had no reason to attack his owner they were nice to him and his mission was to spread fear and hate throughout the southern states this dy no one knows if he made it -
dred scott case
Dred scott was a slave in the free state of illionous and the free territory of wisconson before moving he appealed to the supreme court for his freedom he went on trial 1847and lost he had a retrial june 1850 and won had died shortly after. -
The compromise of 1850
Californa wanted to eneter the united states as a free state but that would upset the balance in the united staes henry clay suggested a compromise with a few laws first he fugitive slave act that ment anyone who helped a slave could be fined or jailed and if you saw one you had to report it slave trade in washington abolished californa enered as a free state and the 36,. 30 line gone. -
Bleeding Kansas
Nebraska was so far north that its a free state was never a question about that But Kansas was next to the slave state of Missouri In Bleeding Kansas the territory would become a battleground over the
slavery Rumors had spread through the South that
20,000 Northerners were going to Kansas, that made everyone need it to be a state and then it was . -
rise of know nothings
The Know Nothing was the nativist American political group of the 1850s. It was made fears that the country had to many German and Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often called as bad for the country and controlled by the Pope in Rome. lasted from 1854 to 1856,they hated immigration and naturalization. -
John brown 2
John Brown was a man of action a man who would not be stopped at abolishing slavery. On October 16 1859 he led 21 men to attack the federal arsenal at harpers ferry virginia. His plan was to get slaves weapons he and his men attacked the arsenal but, by local farmers militiamen and Marines led by robert e. lee. Within 36 hours of the attack, most of Browns men had been killed or captured he lead many raids for his antislavery casue he was hanged for it. -
Elction of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was a four way election, held on November 6, 1860, for the office of president of the united states and the immediate outbreak of the American Civil War. The nation had been divided throughout the 1850s on questions surrounded the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners In 1860 these issues finally came to a end conflict between us started, the Democrats broke into north and south -
Attack on fort sumter
Beauregard in command of the onfederate forces demanded the surrender of the unions Fort Sumter in charleston harbor. union commander anderson refused on april 12, confederate forces opened fire on the fort which was unable to attack effectively april 13, anderson surrendered fort sumter, The Attack stated the civil war but ther were no deaths
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