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Underground Railroad
The Underground RR was a network of people, routes, codes, and places to help blacks escape from slavery. The north tried to abolish slavery which meant that they hated the idea and that they wanted it to end. There were many famous Underground RR leaders who helped fugitives escape from the south. Harriet Tubman was a black fugitive who escaped and returned to the south 19 times and freed over 300 slaves. -
The Missouri Compromise
On March 3rd, 1820 congress passed the Missouri Compromise. Maine and Missouri gain admittance into the U.S.James Tallmadge came up with the compromise. The compromise created the 36,30 line. Missouri joined as a slave state and Maine joined as a free state. Anything above the 36,30 line was free and anything below was slaves. Missouri was a slave state above the 36,30 line. The line extended to the edge of Texas. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
On August 22 and 23 of 1831 Nat Turner led a rebellion of 60-70 black slaves against white plantation owners. It started on the Travis plantation where they killed all of Travis’s family. They went from plantation to plantation in South Ampton killing all plantation owners and their families.There were about 60 families killed. In some cases there were slaves that actually protected their owners from the rebellion. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion part 2
After the rebellion ended Nat Turner was hanged along with many suspected to be a part of the rebellion. All of the south was scared that another rebellion would rise up so the Black Codes were created. -
Compromise of 1850
The men who came up with the compromise were Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. The president at the time of the compromise was Millard Fillmore. The compromise was made because there was a debate on whether or not California should be admitted to the Union as a slave state or a free state. As a result of the compromise, California was admitted as a free state, slave trade was now illegal in Washington DC, Arizona and New Mexico were able to choose whether or not if they had slaves -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas was a free soiler. Free soilers were people who wanted the state to be free of slaves. Stephen Douglas created the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He wanted the 2 states to choose whether or not to be a free state or a slave state. This act got rid of the 36,30 line. Franklin Pierce was president at the time it was passed. Kansas and Nebraska were in popular sovereignty. -
Bleeding Kansas
Tension in the Kansas territory began when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. Anti slavery settlers from New England moved to Kansas to try to fight the slave power. Settlers who were committed to keeping the territory of Kansas free of slavery were called free soilers. Pro slavery settlers from Missouri moved into Kansas to vote illegally in the territory hoping Kansas would become a slave state.The first act of violence was in Lawrence, Kansas and was started by proslavery supporters.