2. American History 5/9/2003 Underground Railroad Slavery and slave ship Civil War

3. 1850 Fugitive Slave Act This bill gave slave owners powers to call on federal help in recapturing escaped slaves.

4. Underground Railroad A symbolic name for struggle to be free from slavery

5. Movie time Slavery Amistad – a slave ship Harriet Tubman

6. 1861-65 Civil War The North = industrial, 22 million people free states The South = agrarian, 9 million, slave states

7. 1861 6 southern states formed the Confederate States of America. - Last resort to block emancipation

8. 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation All slaves were to be made free

9. West Point Graduates Robert E. Lee (confederate) Thomas “ Stonewall ” Jackson (confederate) Ulysses S. Grant (Union) William T. Sherman (Union)

10. 1865 the 13th Amendment Slavery was abolished.

11. 1867 Reconstruction Act Dismissed the white government of the southern states.