1. ID’s: Turner’s Rebellion
Slavery and Abolition
ID’s: Turner’s Rebellion
Compromise of 1850
Popular Sovereignty
Kansas Nebraska Act

2. William Lloyd Garrison
Radical Abolitionist (believed in ending slavery)
Published The Liberator to demand immediate emancipation

3. Fredrick Douglass Escaped slavery and joined the fight to end slavery
Published his story Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass

6. Women Abolitionists
Grimke Sisters: Southerners who were outspoken about the evils they had witnessed

7. 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!

8. 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

9. 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

10. Compromise of 1850 CA admitted as free state
Popular sovereignty for Utah and New Mexico territories
Right to vote for/against slavery
Harsher fugitive slave laws
Slaves not entitled to trial by jury
Fines and imprisonment for those aiding fugitives

11. Map of the Compromise of 1850

12. Kansas – Nebraska Act 1854
Popular sovereignty for KS and NE territories
Problem = North of Compromise line
Divided territory
NE belongs to north
KS belongs to south
Repealed the Missouri Compromise

13. “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

14. Charles Sumner “The Crime Against Kansas”

15. New Republican Party
Opposed slavery in territories and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Nominated John C. Fremont as candidate
South threatened secession if Fremont won
Democrat James Buchanan won instead

16. Dred Scott Decision
Owner took him from MO to free territory and then back
Scott appealed for freedom
Supreme Court ruled against Scott
He was not a citizen
5th Amendment protected “property”

17. Harper’s Ferry
John Brown led a band of 21 men, black and white, 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!

18. 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