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Slavery and the Events Leading up to the Civil War

  • Jezlyn Barton

  • Abolitionist Event part 1

    Abolitionist Event part 1
    Harriet Beecher Stowe was a daughter of an abolitionist minister named Lyman she lived in Cincinnati Ohio she live along the Ohio river border free and slave states. She would visit plantations and was very troubled for all the pain that plantation owners push their slaves. She saw what the slaves had to through all day. She wrote a book called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” it was about a runaway slave and getting caught and getting sent back to the owner and what would happen to them.
  • Ablolionist Event part 2

    Ablolionist Event part 2
    Her book was a best seller. The people in the north read the book and it made them very upset the southerners called it propaganda. Because of her book the southerns were very worried about what would they do without slavery like what would happen to the plantations. Her book got the north ready to fight the south. In the year 1861 Abraham Lincoln got elected for president and he went up to Harriet and said “so you're the little lady that started this war”.
  • Ablolitonist Event part 3

    Ablolitonist Event part 3
    Her book got the north ready to fight the south. In the year 1861 Abraham Lincoln got elected for president and he went up to Harriet and said “so you're the little lady that started this war”. Her book was a big part in starting the civil war.
  • Missouri Compermise 2

    Missouri Compermise 2
    The last reason is that Pinkeny argued that congress could not restrictions on new states joining it would not be fair because there is an equal balance of free and slave states. This compromise was a good idea for this country for many reasons. Each part got what they wanted without no fighting. The North got a new state called Maine and it was free. The North also got more land. The part that the North didn’t agree with is Missouri became a slave state but it was still on the North side.
  • Missouri Compermise 3

    Missouri Compermise 3
    The South got wanted Missouri to be a slave state and it happened. The South also got more possibilities of more land. The part that the South didn’t agree about was they only had three future states that have slaves. They didn’t agree that Maine was free. The Missouri Compromise keeps the pace by meeting each other agreements and there was no violence involved. Henry Clay was the man who created the Missouri Compromise. On March 3rd 1820 congress passed the Missouri Compromise.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    The reading the Missouri Compromise is about the territory of Missouri joining the country as a slave state. The main points are slavery was already in Missouri because slavery migrated into there to balance so that the south can have more slave states. A second main point was that Tallmadge suggested that the slaves should be freed when they reach the age 25 there would be more children that would be coming to work.
  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    Nat Turner's Rebellion
    On August 22-23 1831 at Southampton Virginia a religious priest named Nat Turner leaded a group of 60-70 slaves and starting to rebel on their plantation owners. Nat Turner was located at the Travis plantation. The first place the slaves started was the Travis plantation, his whole family was killed. Nat Turner and the other slaves went on and killed more and more white plantation families. The South ordered about 3,000 military to capture the slaves that was were with Nat Turner and himself.
  • Nat Turner's Rebellion part 2

    Nat Turner's Rebellion part 2
    The slaves that did get captured they were set free if they were found guilty or they were executed. Nat Turner was put in jail and he was hanged when he was in jail. While he was in jail he got a local lawyer named Thomas Gray he wrote a book about his confessions about being a slave and his rebellion. When the lawyer wrote the book about Nat’s rebellion he twisted a lot of things that Nat told Gray what happened to him when he was a slave, Gray convinced the South that Nat was a bad person.
  • Nat Turner's Rebellion part 3

    Nat Turner's Rebellion part 3
    After the rebellion was over the slaves were treated worse than what they were. In the South there were new laws called Black Codes, the laws limited on what black people could and couldn't do in the South the laws made black people want their freedom more. White plantation owners were scared that their own salves were going to try to kill them. Some white plantation owners would only have certain jobs for a slave to do.
  • Bleeding Kansas part 1

    Bleeding Kansas part 1
    The tension in Kansas began in 1854, when the law Kansas Nebraska was passed. People in Missouri moved into Kansas to vote that Kansas would become a slave state illegally. Antislavery settlers moved from New England to Kansas to keep the state free. The first violent attack was in Lawrence Kansas and was started by proslavery supporters.
  • Bleeding Kansas part 2

    Bleeding Kansas part 2
    John Brown led a group of antislavery supporters in an attack on pro slavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek where they killed five proslavery settlers that's how the name “Bleeding Kansas” came about. Loitering started relation by Brown. The Bleeding Kansas started May 21 1856.
  • Dread Scott part 1

    Dread Scott part 1
    Dred Scott was a slave. His master took him into free parts of the state and he sued the court for his freedom. The court didn’t accept his request. On March 6, 1857 the court decided that all slaves and the ones who are free would never be able to become citizens of the United States, so Scott was still a slave when he was in free territory. The Missouri Compromise was officially over the “36,30” line was no longer existed.
  • Dread Scott case part 2

    Dread Scott case part 2
    The north was so mad at this new law Abraham Lincoln decided that he would withdraw from the Union. Latter Peter Blow bought Scott and he had hopped payed for his legal rights to be a free man but he only survived nine months later.
  • Compermise 1850 part 1

    Compermise 1850 part 1
    The reading The Missouri Compromise is about the territory of Missouri joining the country as a slave state. The main points are slavery was already in Missouri because slavery migrated in to there to balance so that the south can have more slave states. A second main point was that Tallmadge suggested that the slaves should be freed when they reach the age 25there would be more children that would be coming to work.
  • Compermise 1850 part 3

    Compermise 1850 part 3
    The North got a new state called Maine and it was free. The North also got more land. The part that the North didn’t agree with is Missouri became a slave state but it was still on the North side. The South got wanted Missouri to be a slave state and it happened. The South also got more possibilities of more land. The part that the South didn’t agree about was they only had three future states that have slaves. They didn’t agree that Maine was free.It keeps the peace by making each other agree
  • Compermise 1850 psrt 2

    Compermise 1850 psrt 2
    The last reason is that Pinkeny argued that congress could not restrictions on new states joining it would not be fair because there is an equal balance of free and slave states. This compromise was a good idea for this country for many reasons. Each part got what they wanted without no fighting. The North got a new state called Maine and it was free. The North also got more land.
  • kannsas Nebraska Act part 3

    kannsas Nebraska Act part 3
    Douglas was wrong there were southerners who came to Kansas. The act was passed by the president Franklin Pierce and the south was very happy but the north was outraged the decision because the north felt that Kansas should not be either or a free or slave state. When the law was passed Douglas found out that he was wrong when the law was passed.
  • Kannsas Nebraska Act part 4

    Kannsas Nebraska Act part 4
    There were fightings between the southern people and the northern people who went to Kansas because the southern people had slaves and the northern people didn't think it wto have slaves.
  • Kannsas Necraska Act part 1

    Kannsas Necraska Act part 1
    The Kansas Nebraska Act was came up by a man named Stephen Douglas .Douglas wanted to run for president and he wanted Chicago to have a railroad. Douglas had to get both sides the South and the North to like him. The North most of them did he just had to figure out how to so he thought of what dose the South want. He thought of having Kansas choosing to be a slave or free state.
  • Kansas Nebraska Act part 2

    Kansas Nebraska Act part 2
    Douglas thought that the people in the south wouldn't have slaves because the ground in the great plains wasn't good for growing cotton.Douglas supported popular sovereignty.Douglas wanted to just forget about the ‘36 30’ line. Douglas knew that the south would like the agreement about giving up the Missouri compromise. Douglas was thinking that the people in the south wouldn’t come because the soil was not good for planting for cotton so their slaves would have nothing to work on.
  • The Raid on Harpers Ferry part 1

    The Raid on Harpers Ferry part 1
    The on Harpers Ferry was on October 16, 1857. A man named John Brown came in to Harper's Ferry Va and attacked the south. Brown took a lot of weapons with him and gave them to his people who went with him on the fight the south with him, five blacks. The first person who was killed was the baggage master they held him hostage. Dangerfield Moby was the first one to die on Brown’s side. Robert E Lee lead a group of troops from Washington and he was on the south side.
  • The Raid on Harpers Ferry part 2

    The Raid on Harpers Ferry part 2
    Brown got captured and he was found guilty and the state of Virginia wanted him to be hung until death. December 2ed 1859 John Brown was executed for treason and the rest of his men who was fighting with him ended up dying to. John Brown was called a terrorist by many southerners. The north wouldn’t accept leadership with slave power and the south wouldn’t accept leadership by the republicans.
  • Presidential Election of 1860

    Presidential Election of 1860
    In 1860 Both of the democrats parties were ripped apart. They could not decide who to pick for the presidential candidate. In the contract William Henry Seward was committed to ending slavery when the democrats met in Chicago they were worried that he was going to attract votes. Another candidate was Abraham Lincoln had more and better ways of slavery. In 1859 they created the Constitutional Union Party, The Border states chose John Bell to be a candidate.
  • Presidential Election of 1860 part 2

    Presidential Election of 1860 part 2
    In November there was an election in the south it was between Bell and Breckinridge and in the north it was between Lincoln and Douglas. When the votes were in Lincoln was the new president.
  • Underground Railroad part 3

    Underground Railroad part 3
    When a slave would stop at people's homes but there was signs that they looked for like a lamp on in the window or when the person would open the door the slave would say a phrase to let them know they were arriving to the right house. When a slave was running away would travel on boats, train, or wagons. The most common slave was a young single man because he would not have any regrets for leaving. Slaves would use the big and little dipper to help them find the drinking gourd.
  • Underground Railroad part 1

    Underground Railroad part 1
    The Underground Railroad was not a railroad that we have today back then it was a group of runaway slaves that have different paths and roots to get to Canada for freedom. The Underground Railroad was started when slaves started to escaping their plantation owners. Abolitionist would help slaves complete their journey to freedom.
  • Underground Railroad part 2

    Underground Railroad part 2
    People would write letters back and forth and use terms and phrases to make sure that if the letter got in the wrong hands that they didn't expect anything. When a slave would run a way they would do it at night so it was harder to see them. If a slave got caught they would have consequences like getting whipped or even killed. Slaves would go in groups at times. One of the most famous runaway slave is Harriet Tubman she went back 19 times to help slaves escape.
  • Underground Railroad part 4

    Underground Railroad part 4
    The Underground Railroad lasted from 1800-1865. The names of the slaves were called packages, or baggages the people who delivered them were called conductors, if they got caught they would be fined $1000 or six months in prison. The Underground Railroad lasted till March 21 through December 6 the year is 1787-1865.