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David Walker
David Walker was born in Wilmighton N.C. He was born a free black man. David Walker was a write, he wrote "Walkers Appeal" which made him famous but also made him wanted by many slave owners. There were slave masters putting prices on his head because of all the hatred they had on him. In 1829, the governor of Georgia passed a bill making the book a capital offense so the legislature were offering $10,000 for him alive and $1,000 for him dead. -
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Underground Railroad
Slaves, Stock Holders, Station Masters, Conductors and Shepherds were involved in the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad(U.G.R.R.) was a secret network of places, people and routes that lead to the north. Some of the states the slaves escaped from is Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas and Tennessee which was called the Upper South. They were trying to escape to the Black Communities, big cities but mainly Canada where they could not be brought back to the South. -
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Underground Railroad
After the Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850, any black that was being accused of a runaway in the north, they were sent south to be a slave so the U.G.R.R. helped the slaves with escaping the south. Conductors would be along the trails or routes to help the slaves through it to stations where they would be safe for a couple days. After they were done there, they would keep traveling north until they got to where they wanted. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise settled many conflicts with the north and south or the free and slave state line. Important information relating far-reaching for settlement and political status. The south argued that Congress had the power to deny statehood and that the U.S. would still be all equal states. The north argued that James Tallmadge would make it that slaves were no longer allowed in Missouri. -
Missouri Compromise
The north and Tallmadge also argued that Tallmadge had passed the amendment but Congress had denied it. The balance in Congress had kept it so the U.S. had all equal slave and free states. But before it had all been equal, Maine had been permitted to be in statehood. -
Missouri Compromise
In the Missouri Compromise at the latitude and longitude of 36’, 30’, south of those directions would be all slave states and north of there would be all free states, that in which the Missouri Compromise had been solved. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner was a intelligent and religious man, he led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831. There were about 70 slaves, him and his group of 70 slaves killed the entire Travis family where Turner had worked as a slave. They called out a militia of 3000 troops to capture Turner and his followers, some of the slaves were found innocent and set free but the rest and including Nat Turner were found guilty and executed. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Thomas Gray published a book about Nat Turner called “The Confessions of Nat Turner”. The whole purpose for Turners rebellion was to scare everyone everywhere he went. Some people even gave their slaves weapons and trusted them to protect their owners. Despite the plantation families being afraid, they took matters into their own hands and used acts of violence and killed over 200 slaves in the years that followed his rebellion. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Southern states had no passed laws that limited slaves to doing things, after they were known as the Black Codes; free blacks were limited to doing things. The rebellion of Nat Turner made life for slaves even more difficult than it was before. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a good compromise in some good ways and bad in some other ways. People thought the counrty was going to split into two but a compromise saved it again. Slave states didnt find it fair there were more slave states than free states. Henry Clay was old, sick and weak but still tried his best to find a compromise. John Calhoun was soon to die and wanted all western states to be slave states or leave the union. -
Compromise of 1850
Everyone had to help catch run away slaves and send them back to their state. Whoever let a slave go was fined and or jailed and judges got paid more to send a slave back than to free them. It was a disaster for all the free slaves in the north and in the next ten years, twenty thousand slaves escaped to Canada. Blacks were scared of being sent back south and were defenseless. A lot of people did not like the Fugitive Slave Act but it made the people that were against it more organized. -
Compromise of 1850
Calhoun and the president died during the debate, Millard Fillmore, new president, used Henry Clays plan. For people to agree with him, Henry Clay gave 70 speeches but became sick so Douglass helped get the plan passed. California became a free state, they decided what to do with the land they got from the Mexican American War. Slavery was allowed in D.C. but slave trade was disabled. The fight between Texas and Mexico ended, payed off the debt with Mexico Texas had. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephan Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. He introduced it because he could get more votes and the north would be more powerful. This act proclaimed that people in the territory should decide for themselves if slavery should be allowed. Southerners supported this act because it raised the possibility that Kansas and Nebraska would become a slave state. Northerners were against this act because the democrats denounced Douglass for what they saw as a self out to the slave power. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephan Douglas thought the northerners would be okay because he thought agriculture on the great plains would not support cotton or slavery, people of Kansas and Nebraska would choose to be peaceful. Popular Sovereignty fits into this act because southerners would not object to relying in popular sovereignty to make the decision. The Kansas-Nebraska Act had some good and some bad effects on the country. -
Bleeding Kansas
Tension in the Kansas Territory began when looters looted newspaper offices and homes. Antislavery settlers from New England moved to Kansas to fight against the Slave Power. Free landers were free if they were committed to keeping the Kansas territory free of slavery. Settlers from Missouri that were proslavery moved into Kansas to vote illegally hoping that Kansas would become a slave state. Proslavery supporters started the first act of violance in Lawrence, Kansas. -
Bleeding Kansas
David Walker, a abolitionist, led other antislavery supporters in an attack on proslavery settlers neat Pottawatomie Creek, where five men were killed in front of their families. Harpers Ferry amd Browns raid started murderous raids throughout Kansas give the territory the name "Bleeding Kansas". -
Dead Scott Case
Dred Scott wasnt able to sue for freedom after seen by the supreme court. Slaves were treated better after this. His case was about him and his family being set free.
