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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was mainly about Congress trying to keep congressional balance and establishing which states would be free and slave states. Congress kept their balance by adding Missouri as a slave state but also by adding Maine as a free state. The compromise also created the 36' 30' line which basically was the border of free and slave states. Any state below the 36' 30 were slave states and any states above the 36' 30 would be free. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turners Rebellion was a slave rebellion that occured in 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia and was led by Nat Turner. Between 60 or 70 slaves had helped Nat Turner kill plantation owners and their families. The result: between 100-200 black slaves and freed slaves were killed by militias and mobs. Also, southern state legislatures passed laws saying that education of slave or freed blacks was not allowed and restricted most of the civil rights for free blacks. -
Assigned Abolitionist Event
My signed abolitionist was Harriet Tubman. She was vigoriously known as being on of the best working conductors on the Underground Railroad and she had helped over 300 slaves escape to freedom. She was also a spy during the Civil War and she had attended to some of the wounded soldiers during the war and was a cook too. She was the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, the Combahee River. Raid. -
Underground Railroad
There was no exact date of when the Underground Railroad but the earliest known occurence of it was in the early 1850's. The Underground Railroad was a network of people and places and trails where slaves could attempt to escape slavery to their wanted freedom. Pro-slavery people would sometimes hide slaves in barns or secret hideaway's in their houses of other places and provide them with food, clothing and shelter for the time they are there tand for the future travels. -
The Compromise of 1850
Just like the problems in 1820, there was yet another problem in congress. California wanted to become part of the Union as a free state but if California had joined, then there would have been more free states than slaves states and there would be two more free state senators and the south did not agree with that. Henry Clay was the man also known was the "Great Compromiser" who came up with a five part compromise that would help resolve the issue. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to open up new farms and to make the Mideastern Transcontinental Railroad.The reason this act became a problem was when popular sovereignty was also added which stated that the people could decide for themselves whether slavery should be allowed upon them. The result: pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed into Kansas and started violence among the people which lead up to the Civil War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%E2%80%93Nebraska_Act -
Bleeding Kansas
There was no exact date of when Bleeding Kansas occured but i chose November 21, 1855 because it was when the Wakarusa War began. It began when Free-Stater Charles Dow was shot by a pro-slavery settler. It was the first act of violence which started a chain reaction of major and destructive bloodshed and fear. -
Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott Case was about a black man who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court. Scott accompanied his owner Dr. Emerson to non-slave territories and came across the idea that he should be allowed to become free since he had once stood on free soil. In the laws eye, Dred was just a black slave who was equivalent to property and thereforth, Dred was not allowed to be given freedom from the Court and he lost the case. When Dred returned to his owner, he was given the freedom he deserved. -
Presidential Election of 1860
There were four people who ran for president in 1860. The first person was Abraham Lincoln. He was selected from Illinois and he neutral on the idea of slavery. John C. Breckinridge was the second person. He represented the south and he wanted slavery and wanted to spread it further. Stephen Douglas was against slavery and John Bell was for slavery. In the end, Abraham Lincoln won the election but he did it spectacularly. He won without one Southern vote. -
Attack On Fort Sumter
The attack on Fort Sumter occured near Charleston, South Carolina. South Carolina basically declared war on Fort Sumter. People there demanded that the U.S. Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor since South Carolina authorities already seized all Federal property in and near Charleston. Abraham Lincoln gave notice to the Govenor of South Carolina that he was sending help which ended up with an ultimatum in the Confederate government: they had to evacute Fort Sumter. -
Attack on Ft. Sumter: Continued
U.S Major Robert Anderson had refused to surrender. Starting at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederates bombarded the Fort with artillary batteries that had surrounded the Fort. After 34 hours, Major Anderson made the decision to surrender and evacute. After the surrender, Lincoln had called for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the rebellion had cause four more states to secede the Union, thus, the Civil War had begun.
