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The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped slaves from the South.

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HE was a slave along with about 60 other slaves led a violent rebellion that resulted in the deaths of more than 50 Virginians.

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The Nat Turner Rebellion Explained: US History Review

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This was a best selling book that told stories of slaves in the south.

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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN by Harriet Beecher Stowe  Volume 1 - complete unabridged audiobook

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Uploaded by Fab Audio Books on 2013-05-11.

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One abolitionist in particular became or infamous, for battles that caused the deaths of pro-slavery settlers in Kansas.

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On the night of October 16, 1859, Brown and a band of followers seized the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in what is believed to have been an attempt to arm a slave insurrection.

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On April 1861, knowing that more supplies was on its way from the North to the federal garrison at Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, provisional Confederate forces in Charleston demanded the fort’s surrender. The fort’s commander, Major Robert Anderson, refused. On April 12, the Confederates opened fire with cannons. At 2:30 p.m. the following day, Major Anderson surrendered.

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When Lincoln was elected, many of the southern states decided they no longer wanted to be a part of the United States. They felt that they had every right to leave. Starting with South Carolina, eleven states would eventually leave the United States and form a new country called the Confederate States of America.

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The final straw for the South was election of Abraham Lincoln to President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was a member of the new anti-slavery Republican Party.

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In 1854, the government passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowing the residents of Kansas to vote on whether they would be a slave state or a free state. The region was flooded with supporters from both sides. They fought over the issue for years. Several people were killed in small skirmishes giving the confrontation the name Bleeding Kansas. Eventually Kansas entered the Union as a free state in 1861.

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Southern states began to fear they would lose so much power that they would lose all their rights. Each new state became a battleground between the two sides for power.

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The southern states felt that the federal government was taking away their rights and powers.

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Then Northern states hand industry. The southern states, however, had maintained a large farming economy and this itwas based on slave labor. While the North no longer needed slaves, the South relied heavily upon slaves for their way of life.

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The south had wanted slaves to help farm their lands but the north thought that slavery should be outlawed.