Slave Resistance in the Civil War

Slave Resistance

The slaver was very hard, the slaves were wipped if they did not work correctly. They were separated from their families. Many slaves chose to not accept this way. Even though they legally said it was a free state people didn't act like it. Safe-house helped people with the underground railroad. The underground railroad was a railroad that led to many different safe-houses for the slaves. They used to knock at different houses everyday for food, clothes, and sleep. The railroad led to Canada a free state, and if the slaves escaped to Canada they would have thier liberty.

The Compromise of 1850

The Compromise was very important. In the 1850's many white Northerners believed that slavery violated the basic principles of the U.S. and the Christian Religion. It didn't mean that they believed that blacks and whites were equal, it just meant that they saw slavery as evil and something that cannot be tolerated.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe said that the average northerners didn't think a lot about slavery. Harriet had experience of slavery, becasue she was a slave. She got sold across the nation. Many farms and territories lost land in war, and many houses were burnt. The Southerners hated the book Propaganda. Many people said the story in the book was a lie and many writers even tried to write books against the Propaganda. They sold 10 000 copies of that book in one week, and in the civil war they sold over 1 million copies. It was one of the most influential novel of that time.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

The land was north of the 36 lattitude, which meant it had to be free. The land wanted to change the railroad-biggest technology. Kansas Nebraska Act-the railroad line was Indian, and Indians didn’t welcome white settlers. The government didn't care and told the Indians to move somewhere else.

Ken Burns the civil war

Showed that Americans were killing Americans. Devastation was nothing that the Americans have ever seen (until World War II). They knew they were making history. Made some rich and some poor. The war was a new birth of freedom. even if you were in the north or south-black people cleaned after the Americans battles. The last veteran died in 1859. The civil war changed america's pathway. They should have followed the constitution-they should have all been treated equal. They never knew when they expected death or war.