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The Mossouri Compromise
Should Missouri be a free or slave state? Missouri already had slaves in it so the south thought that Missouri should be a slave state. While the north thought that Missouri should be a free state. To come to an agreement that both sides would like, the Missouri Compromise was formed. It stated that Missouri would be a slave state. All the land north of the 36’ 30’ line would be free and everything south of that line would be slave territory. -
William Still
William Still was born in Indian Mills, New Jersey as a black free-man. He campaigned to end segregation on Philadelphia trolly cars and started a Berean Presbyterian Church. He also volunteered for the Union Army. William also kept comprehensive records of the slaves he encountered and ended up publishing them. One of the salves he helped was his long-lost brother. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner was and intelligent and very religious you man. Nat Truner was a slave who was the leader of a slave rebellion that took place in Virginia. Turner lead a group of 60-70 slaves where they rebelled first at the Travis plantation where Turner was a salve. They killed the entire Tavis famly and then moved to other plantation. In total Turner and his group killed about 60 plantation owners and their famliy members. -
The Dred Scott Case
third and final trial the judge ruled that Scott would remain a slave because they said that slaves were not people they were property. After this Mrs. Emerson gave the Scotts back to his origional owners the Blow family. The Blow family gave the Scotts their freedom. He was only free for about a year before he passed way. But he died knowing that his family was free. -
The Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. He was sold to the Emerson family in 1830. He and his wife also a slave traveled with Dr. Emerson in the free states for 12 years. When Dr. Emerson died, Scott tried to by his freedom but it failed. Then he tried to sue for his freedom. The first trial the judge ruled in favor of Mrs. Emerson. Scott filed for an appeal. In the second trial the judge ruled in favor of Scott. They only had a short taste of freedom before Mrs. Emerson filed for an appeal. In the -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 had five parts to it. The first part stated that California was allowed to become a Free state, second it was decided that the land won in the Mexican War would be split into territories and the territories would decide weather or not to allow slavery there, third part stated that the slave trade was no longer allowed in Washington, D.C. In the fourth part the Texas border was settled. Finally it had the Fugitive Slave Act. -
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad were paths that runaway slaves would take to the Northern states and Canada. The Underground Railroad was mainly in the Northern states, and border salve states though some went into the deep South. The people who helped the runaway slaves were freed slaves, white abolitionists, station masters, stock holders, and other runaway slaves. The main reason for the Underground Railroad was to get slaves in the South to freedom in the North. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
This stated that the Kansas and Nebraska territories would use popular soverity to decide when they had enough people to become states that the people could chose weather or not they wanted to be slave states. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is named for the summer of murderous raids throughout Kansas. It all started with the first act of violence in Lawrence Kansas and it was started by proslavery supporters. Then an abolitionist John Brown led another antislaverysupporters in an attack on proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek, where they killed five proslavery men in front of their families. -
Presidential Election of 1860
This election was between Abraham Lincoln a Republican, Stephen Douglas a Democrat, John Breckinridge a democrast, and John Bell who was of the Constitutional union. Abraham Lincoln had moderate views on slaver. He thought that the states that already had slaves could keep them but he didn't want it to spread to the territories.. Stephen Douglas wanted slavery and wanted it to expand. John Breckinridge also wanted slavery to expand. John Bell had moderate views but he still wanted slavery. John -
Presidental Election of 1860
he still wanted slavery. Abraham Lincoln won the Northern states and the states on the West. Stephen Douglas won the slave states of Missouri, and Rhode Island. John Breckinridge won the Southrn states of Texas, Arkansas, Lousiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Flordia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. John Bell won the swing states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was a Union fort located in a harbor along the Carolina coast. It was after South Carolina secceded from the Union President Lincoln sent supplies to Fort Sumter, when Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter. Soon after the supply ships arrived though they didn't try to reach the fort because they knew they would be attacked if they tried to reach the fort.
