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ID’s: Turner’s Rebellion
Slavery and Abolition ID’s: Turner’s Rebellion Compromise of 1850 Popular Sovereignty Kansas Nebraska Act
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William Lloyd Garrison
Radical Abolitionist (believed in ending slavery) Published The Liberator to demand immediate emancipation
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Fredrick Douglass Escaped slavery and joined the fight to end slavery
Published his story Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass
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Women Abolitionists Grimke Sisters: Southerners who were outspoken about the evils they had witnessed
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The Underground Railroad
Secret Network to hide fugitive slaves “Conductors” hid them in secret tunnels and false cupboards Harriet Tubman: 19 trips to the South and over 300 slaves helped!
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Turner’s Rebellion 1831 Nat Turner led rebel slaves in an uprising
Killed 65 Widespread fear throughout the South White Militias formed Killed 56
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Missouri Compromise Louisiana Territory split in two parts – divided at 36/30 N. latitude South of line, slavery is legal North of line, (except MO) is illegal
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Statehood for California - 1850
- Gold Rush made CA eligible for statehood CA constitution forbade slavery-Alarmed/angered S. Assumed CA would be slave state because mostly below compromise line
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Compromise of 1850 CA admitted as free state
Popular sovereignty: UT/NM Right to vote for/against slavery Harsher fugitive slave laws No trial by jury for slaves Fines and jail for aiding fugitives
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Map of the Compromise of 1850
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Kansas – Nebraska Act 1854 Popular sovereignty for KS and NE territories Problem = North of MO Compromise line Divided territory NE = north KS = south Ended Missouri Compromise
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“Bleeding Kansas” Race to populate Kansas
1,000s of “border ruffians” crossed from MO to KS to vote illegally 2 Rival Governments established Led to bloody violence
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Charles Sumner “The Crime Against Kansas”
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Dred Scott Decision 1857 Owner took him from MO to free territory
Scott appealed for freedom Supreme Court ruled against Scott He was not a citizen 5th Amendment protected “property”
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Harper’s Ferry John Brown led a band of 21 men to Harper’s Ferry
Goal: seize the federal arsenal and start a slave uprising Suppressed by Federal Troops and Brown was executed Sparked extreme reactions in the N and S!
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Abraham Lincoln Elected
1860 Republican candidate Halt further spread of slavery No interfering with existing slavery Southerners still viewed him as enemy Democratic party split over slavery issues Divided Southern votes
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