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Harriet Tubman escapes to Philadelphia
In 1849,Harriet Tubman fearing she and other family members would be sold Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and build a railroad so she can protect her family and she want to in Maryland's Eastern Shore. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-soldiers so if a slavery run to a no slavery state their owner can come get then............... -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War'' -
the Kansas Nebraska act
The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 was an organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters. -
Abraham Lincoln debates Stephen Douglas
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
John Brown attacks Harper's Ferry
John Brown's go's to Harpers Ferry was an 1859 effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Abraham Lincoln Elected
Lincoln ran on a political platform as opposed to the expansion of slavery in the territories. His election served as the immediate force with lead to the Civil War. -
The Confederacy formed
the states farthest south, where slavery and were dominant, formed the Confederate States of America They established their capital at Montgomery, Alabama and took over federal forts on their territory. -
South Carolina Secedes
When the ordinance was adopted on December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. James Buchanan, the United States president, declared the ordinance illegal but did not act to stop it.
