Timeline by Charleigh Chamblee

Slavery 1865

charleighcha29 — 2024-09-10 14:48:42 UTC

Slavery continued to spread across the southern states and become extinct in northern states. Slavery continued to exist in the south until put down by the Union army and abolished officially by the 13th amendment to the constitution in 1865.

Abolitionism 1888

charleighcha29 — 2024-09-11 14:12:06 UTC

Abolitionism in 1888 Western Europe and the Americas their movement was responsible fro creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade.

The Kansas- Nebraska act

charleighcha29 — 2024-09-11 14:14:36 UTC

In 1854, Senator Douglas, the author of the Compromise of 1850, introduced another piece of legislation “to organize the Territory of Nebraska.” Douglas was promoting a transcontinental railroad that would pass through Chicago in his home state. But the envisioned northern route had to pass through the Nebraska territory, a place where slavery was prohibited by the 1820 Missouri Compromise. To get what he wanted he offered a compromise to allow settlers to decide to legalize slavery. This re opened land to slavery and they called this act “bleeding Kansas”. Which foreshadowed the civil war.

Fugitive slave act 1850

charleighcha29 — 2024-09-11 14:17:22 UTC

An existing federal law, enacted by Congress in 1793, allowed local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners, and imposed penalties upon anyone who aided their flight. But the new version included in the Compromise of 1850 went much further, by compelling citizens to assist in capturing escapees, denying the captives the right to a jury trial, and increasing the penalty for anyone aiding their escape. It also put cases in the hands of federal commissioners who got $10 if a fugitive was returned, but only $5 if an alleged slave was determined to be a free Black.

The pottawatomie massacre

charleighcha29 — 2024-09-11 14:32:23 UTC

One of those who went to Kansas was a radical abolitionist and religious zealot named John Brown, who had worked as a conductor on the Underground Railroad and founded an organization that helped slaves escape to Canada. In 1856 he moved to Kansas where he angered at the newspaper office and other property of Kansas, pro-slavery forces. Brown, Kansas, and 6 of his brothers took proslavery men out into the creek promising they wouldn’t be harmed. Then they stabbed and slashed them with a saber as well as shooting them in the back of the head.