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Slavery in the South
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William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was born in 1805. When he was 13 he was an apprentice to a printer nad newspaper publishers and that was what he found to love. He created an anti-slavery newspaper called the Liberator in 1831. He was also one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society -
Black Seminole Slave Rebellion
This was caused by Jackson after the Indian Removal Act. The Black Seminoles joined forces with the Seminoles. They recruited African slaves on plantations to fight. The Black Seminoles, African slaves, and some native people all fought together by destroying sugar plantations and killing U.S. soldiers. The U.S. government started to panic and offered them freedom if they turned against their ally. Only some took the offer. The rebellion ended when they were forced to go on the Trail of Tears. -
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
This was a U.S. Supreme Court case between Edward Prigg and the Pennsylvania law. The case was held in which the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 prevented a PA state law from prohibiting blacks to be taken out of the free state of PA. Prigg was convicted of breaking the PA law that outlawed the capture of fugitive slaves. He argued that the state law was unconstitutional. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony moved to NY and became friends with Frederick Douglas. She was a part of the temperance movements. She was inspired to fight more for women's rights after she was denied speech at a temperance convention because of her gender. -
Seneca Falls Convention
This was the first women's rights convention in the US. It was held in Seneca Falls, New York by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her husband. This convention discussed women's suffrage and the overall rights that women had. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The congress passed this act which required all escaped slaves to be returned to their owners and all Americans had to cooperate with the captures. This act also made the U.S. government responsible for escaped slaves. -
Compromise of 1850
This act had admitted California into the union as a free state, established a boundary between Texas and the US, the Fugitive Slave act was amended, the remainder of the Mexican cession was split into New Mexico and Utah, and finally there was a payment of $10 million for Texas and New Mexico. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act created 2 new territories; Kansas and Nebraska. This act allowed for popular sovereignty. This caused the problem of “Bleeding Kansas” because so many people came to this area to influence the vote. -
Underground Railroad
The underground was a network of freed black and white people who worked together to help runaway slaves. At least 30,000 slaves escaped through this network. The journey took about six weeks and was about 800 miles. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation 3 years into the civil war. This proclamation declared that all slaves that were to be free in the confederate states. It did not officially end slavery but it helped the union become stronger because they had a purpose for fighting for freedom.