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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a movement for enslavement through escape and flight,through the end of the Civil War.Refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bandage.It had "stations" in Richmond,Charleston and many other southern towns.Harriet Tubman was a famous former slave and conducter invloed in the underground railroad -
William Lloyd Garrison
Garrison was the most passionate abolitionists and worked on multiple antislavery newspapers. He published The Liberator in 1832 he helped New England form an anti-slavery society. He blasted the constitution as a pro-slavery document -
Frederick Douglas
Frederick was a former slave who was also an abolitionist. He was very smart and he also helped other slaves read and write. He wrote multiple autobiographies about how his life was when he was a young black slave -
The Gag Rule
The House of Representatives used the "gag rule" to end discussions and debates about petitions calling for the end of slavery. Representative John Q Adams opposed the rule because he said that it felt like it was a restriction on free speech -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 included the following provisions.1-California was admitted to the Union as a free state 2-The rest of the Mexican cession was split into two territories of New Mexico and Utah and organized without the mention of slavery3-the claim of Texas to a portion of New Mexico was satisfied by a payment of $10mil4-new legislation was passed to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their masters and 5- the buying and selling of slaves was abolished in the District of Columbia. -
Uncle Toms Cabins
This story tells of Uncle Tom, an enslaved person depicted as saintly, dignified,nobleand steadfast in his beliefs.The novel was critcide by whites who thought stowes portrayal of black characters was too positive.Harriet Stowe used her best novel to help her highlight the sexual abuse of female slaves as a moral and ethical fail of the slave society -
The American Slave Code
In 1853 there was a law that slaves couldn't constitute families. They didn't have claim to each other,no parental rights,no family goverment.Slaves couldnt get married nor could they ever have families or be members of a family -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a small civil war in the US that fought between proslavery and antislavery. Murder, destruction, and psychological warfare became a code of conduct in Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri.These groups engaged in a series of brutal confrontations that ultimately contributed to starting the civil war -
Dred Scott v Sandford case
This case was highly controversial because it was based on the issue of how much constitutional authority Congress had over slavery. Dred Scott was a slave whose owner brought him to a free state . He lived in that free state for quite a while and when his owner brought him back to the state that allowed slavery and Dred fought for his freedom because for the months he was free he argued that he should be free. -
The election of 1860
In the election of 1860, Lincoln was chosen as their candidate because he had a moderate look on slavery, most other republicans didn't have a look at slavery the was Lincoln did.Lincoln's background appealed to small-holding farms and midwesterners.This strategy work,winning every northern and western state other than New Jersery