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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a and secret of hiding places and brave people who helped runaway slaves reach the north, or Canada. Slaves could not escape out in the open or else slave hunters could track them down and claim them as theirs. Flyers were put up with awards on them from $20 to $800 if someone turned in their slave. If they saw a runaway and didn't turn them in they would be fined or jailed. -
Thomas Garrett
Thomas Garrett was a white quaker born in Upper Darby, PA. Thomas was known as "Delaware's greatest humanitarian" and helped more than 2,700 slaves escape to freedom in 40 years of being a station master. Thomas decided to become an abolitionist when a slave employed by Garrett's family was forced into slavery. That wouldn't stop Thomas! Him and Jon Hunn were tried for and convicted of helping in the escape of the Hawkins family and fined so much money they almost went bankrupt. -
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Underground Railroad
Station masters and conductors helped slaves by providing places for them to stay, giving them food and directions, and teaching them songs to help them along the way. -
The Missouri Compromise
Congress tried making changing Missouri. People were unhappy and found it unfair that they wanted to change things and the states would be unequal. The North wanted to be free when the South wanted to be slave states. Slave holders had even already moved into Missouri! When Missouri finally became a slave state, Maine became a free state to balance out the free states, and slave states and all of the states above 36 30 were free. -
Missouri Compromise
During this time, slavery played a big roll in our economy, but in my opinion, all states should have been free. The Missouri Compromise was a good idea overall. It settled the disputes over the North and the South. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner was a religious slave who lead a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831. Nat hadaround 60 or 70 slave followers and around 3,000 troops were sent to kidnap Nat and his followers. Slaves, including Nat were tried in court. Nat was found guilty, and hanged. Everybody, including blacks, probably believed Thomas Gray, a lawyer who published "The Confessions of Nat Turner." Yet nobody really knows what was said to this day. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Plantation owners and their families became very nervous and lashed out on their slaves in fear. After the rebellion, the South began to pass laws limiting the slaves to do what they want, called Black Codes. The rebellion back fired and the slaves wanted their freedom more than ever. -
Compromise of 1850
California became a free state. The land that we gained from the Mexican American War got to decide if they wanted slaves or not (popular sovereign). Slave trade was outlawed in Washington, D.C. but slavery was still allowed. The Fugitive Slave Act was passed and all runaway slaves had to be returned to an owner. Free blacks in the North could be captured and sent to the South without any say. Whites had to report any runaway. If they didn't, they'd be fined or jailed. -
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At this time the underground railroad was booming. Judges were paid $10 for every slave that was returned. -
Bleeding Kansas
Tension in Kansas started in 1854 when the Kansas-Nebraska act became a law. Settlers from New England moved to Kansas to fight against slavery. Settlers who were comitted to keeping the territory of Kansas free of slavery were called free soilers. Free soilers moved into Kansas to illegally vote in the territory because they wanted Kansas to be a slave state. The first act of violence was started by proslavery supporters and happened in Lawrence Kansas. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 took place on November 5, 1860. The president candidates were Abraham Lincoln, a republican, Stephen Douglas, a democrat, John Breckingridge, a Democrat, and John Bell, who was part of the constitutional union. Lincoln understood that slavery was needed, but he didn't want it to expand. Lincoln won the election with no southern votes and this angered the South.
