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Antebellum Timeline
The Missouri Compromise:scroll:
1820
-One of the compromise was counting one slave as 3/5 of a person
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-Missouri admitted as a slave state, while Maine admitted to be a free state to balance out the amount of slave and free states in the U.S. :scales:
-They banned slavery throughout the Louisiana purchase territory :forbidden:
Compromise Of 1850
Soon California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate. :rolled_up_newspaper:
The five laws were, the admission of Ca as a free state, organization of the south west territory, one was the adjusted of the broader about Texas and New Mexico, the fourth is the the eliminations of the slave trade in D.C, and the fifth the fugitive slave law. :spiral_note_pad:
The Compromise of 1850 was a tie where they passed 5 laws that dealt with the slavery ad the territory expansion.
Uncle Tom Cabin :house: 1852
The story is told by a man name Tom which is a slave :chains:
The novel was written by an american author Harriet Beecher Stowe :fountain_pen:
The novel showed the cruel
treatment of African American slaves in the United States, it increased the awareness of southern
slavery and helped the abolitionist cause, which was a movement that was trying to outlaw slavery. :arrow_heading_up:
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1850
Soon white voters cheated from the sides of free, and slave and soon went to Kansas casting votes for the territory :newspaper:
This result lead to Bleeding Kansas, and violence broke out between Pro and Anti-Slavery supporters :explode: :gun:
The people of Kansas had to decide whether the territory will have slavery or not. :question:
Dred Scott 1857
The court decided that slaves are not citizens therefore they have no right to sue :hammer:
When Dred Scott moved with his master to Illinois and Wisconsin, which were free states, he sue for his freedom beacsue he became free once they moved to the free states. :world_map:
Roger Taney wrote Slavery could not be prohibited in any sate or territory :forbidden:
John Brown's Raid 1859
Although the raid wasn't a success it inflamed the sectional tensions and soon raised the stakes for 1960 presidential election. :fire:
Soon he was captured and was found guilty of treason, and murder in November 2 1859 :hocho:
Brown led a small group to raid in Harpes Gerry, Virginia(which is now West Virginia), in an attempt to destroy the institution of slavery :gun:
States secedes to South Carolina
Abraham Lincoln Elected 1860
Lincoln wanted slaves to be treated as equal citizens, such as the right to vote, the right to participate, and etc. :scales:
Lincoln was known as an anti-slavery Orator :red_cross:
Lincoln objective was to save the Union and deal with slavery :bookmark_tabs:
Soon later in about six weeks more states such as Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, and Texas secede. :six:
The issue soon brought up to the Northerners and they felt the south has no right to leave the union :forbidden:
South Carolina was the first places to secede on December 20, 1860 :first_place_medal:
Underground Railroad :railway_track:
Harriet Tubman was a conductor and made 19 trips and set free hundreds of people :world_map:
Slaves used songs, that gave them the direction towards the north, such as follow the north star. :star:
It was run by white and black people who tried to rescue slaves and bring them to the north :black_circle: :white_circle:
Harriet Tubman:Quotes on slavery
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.” -Harriet Tubman
"I free thousands slaves, I could have free a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves"-Harriet Tubman
I had crossed the line. I was free; but, there was no one there to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land." -Harriet Tubman
