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Underground Railroad
catchers or law enforcements wouldn't know. Many of the Underground Railroad routes ran through the state of Ohio where was a great place for slaves to be. Southern Ohio was home to many Quakers, Covenanters, and other abolitionists that used their houses as depots or stations as safe houses. The Underground Railroad was widly used until the end of the Civil War. -
Missori Compromise
The north did not agree with Missouri becoming a slave state because it is above the 36’ 30’ line. Both the north and south may have not agreed with the even amount of slave and free states. On March 3rd, 1820 is when congress passed the Missouri Compromise. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-passes-the-missouri-compromise -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise kept peace in the northern and southern states. It made an even balance of free and and slave states. The southern states gained another slave state, Missouri, and more future slave states/territories. Southern slave holders may not agree with the north getting more land than the south. The north gained Maine as a free state, land above the 36’ 30’ , and have more future states than the south. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner’s Rebellion, on August 22-23 1831, was lead by an intelligent, preacher named Nat Turner. There were 60-70 slaves that were involved in the rebellion. The rebellion took place in South Ampton, Virginia and started at the Travis plantation where Nat Turner was a slave. The rebelling slaves killed the whole Travis family, kids and all. After they killed the Travis family, they went on to different plantations and killed other families. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
They were the following: not allowed to vote, serve on jury, own property, testify in court, learn to read or write, buy or sell goods, be a preacher, own a gun, meet in groups of more than five people, and a lot more. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
The first official response to the rebellion was to call the militia. They used 3,000 troops just to capture Nat Turner. He was jailed, went to court, found guilty. When he had his time in jail Thomas Gray, lawyer in Virginia, interviewed him. Thomas Gray later published a book called The Confessions of Nat Turner. No one knows for sure whether the book he published was real record of what Nat Turner said. After this rebellion, sourthern states made strict laws towards slaves. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave whose owner took him out of the slave state of Missouri to the free territories of Illinois and Wisconsin and was taken back to Missouri. Instead of him running away, he appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom on the grounds for living in the free territories of Illinois and Wisconsin that had made him a free man. After ten years of appealing to the Supreme Court, they ruled against Dred Scott. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott had no legal standing to sue in court because he was and could never be a citizen, according to the ruling. On March 6, 1857, the court decided that all people of African ancestry could never become citizens of the U.S. and therefore cannot sue in court. Dred Scott remained a slave. This had outraged northerners and this greatly influenced the nomination of Abraham Lincoln to the Republican party.
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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was made to keep the nation united but was only temporary. The biggest part in the Compromise of 1850 was the Fugitive Slave Act. It allowed citizens to help in the recovery of runaway slaves. It denied a fugitive slave’s right to jury trial. There would also be more federal officials that are responsible for enforcing the law. The compromise also gave California the right to be a free state because before it had lay south of the 36’30’ line which had made it a slave state -
Compromise of 1850
Because of the compromise, slaves that were in the north fled to Canada where slave catchers were not allowed and slavery was not allowed. The Fugitive Slave Act gave abolitionists more drive to stop slavery.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglass, senator of Illinois, was the person who proposed this act. He wanted Chicago to connect with the west by the transcontinental railroad and become a railroad pub but, Kansas and Nebraska had to become states. He also wanted popular sovereignty. He thought with this idea, the northerners would like the idea but he was wrong, they hated this act.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
He also thought that the southerners wouldn’t want Kansas or Nebraska as slave states because both states don’t have the right growing season for cotton. The Kansas Nebraska Act was passed by congress. This meant that the 36’30’ line was now gone and Kansas and Nebraska now can decide if they want to become free or slave states. -
Bleeding Kansas
Then came in John Brown, one of the anti-slavery activists that moved to the Kansas territory. John Brown had led five other anti-slavery activists in an attack near Pottawatomie Creek. They killed five proslavery men in front of their families. These killings caused Bleeding Kansas.
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Bleeding Kansas
It's the summer of 1856 and tension had begun in the Kansas Territory when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. Proslavery settlers from Missouri moved to the Kansas territory to vote illegally in the territory to get the proslavery votes up. Free soilers, people who are committed to keeping the state free, moved to Missouri also. Proslavery supporters started the first act of violence in Lawrence, Kansas at a anti-slavery newspaper print shop. -
The Raid on Harpers Ferry
On a Sunday evening on October 16th, 1859, John Brown, an abolitionist, led five blacks and thirteen whites into Harpers Ferry, Virginia with a wagon full of guns for the slaves to rebel with them. John Brown had planned to lead them southward along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains and to destroy slavery. The slaves never rose up with them to rebel against slavery. Brown and his men that he had seized the armoury and arsenal house and took up hostages. -
The Raid on Harpers Ferry
The slaves never rose up with them to rebel against slavery. Brown and his men that he had seized the armoury and arsenal house and took up hostages. Finally on Tuesday morning, U.S. troops arrived at the arsenal led by Robert Lee. Nine more of Brown’s men were killed including his two sons. Then Brown’s men that were left surrendered and Brown was seized and turned over to Virginia where he was tried for treason. -
The Raid on Harpers Ferry
Brown was found guilty and was sentenced to death. December 2nd, 1859, John Brown was executed.
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Presidental Election of 1860
The Presidential Election of 1860 had the candidates of Abraham Lincoln (Republican), Stephen Douglas (Democrat), John Breckinridge (Democrat), and John Bell (Constitutional Union). Abraham Lincoln had a moderate approach to slavery but didn’t want it to expand into the territories. Stephen Douglass was okay with slavery but supported popular sovereignty. John Breckinridge supports slavery and wants to expand slavery into the territories. -
Presidential Election of 1860
John Bell supports slavery moderately and is a slave owner. All of these candidates have different opinions on slavery. In the election, Lincoln had gotten votes from all of the northern states, Oregon, and California. Douglas got votes from Missouri and south New Jersey. Breckinridge had gotten votes from the all of the southern state. Bell had gotten votes from some of the border states of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. -
Presidential Election of 1860
In the end, Abraham Lincoln had won the election of 1850 without any southern votes and the southerners were outraged. This was one of the many events that started the Civil War.
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Thomas Garrett
Thomas Garrett lived in Wilmington, Delaware in a Quaker community. When he was younger, he successfully kidnapped a free black woman who worked for his family. After he did that, he knew right then that he was an abolitionist. He helped around 2,700 slaves to freedom during his forty years of being a station master for the Underground Railroad. He paid approximately $5,700.00 in fines for helping slaves escape to freedom. -
Thomas Garrett
He became bankrupt because of this but he never stopped helping slaves because of this.
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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad, or the freedom train, was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by the nineteenth century people and slave people of African descendants in the United States in efforts to escape free states with the aid of abolitionists. Abolitionists that helped slaves escape could be shepherds, station masters, or shareholders. Abolitionists that helped slaves used secret codes to tell other abolitionists that were helping when and where the slaves were coming so then slave
