Defying the System of Slavery

1. Defying the System of Slavery Andrew McKenna  Jose Quintero 

2. The compromise of 1850 made Northern California to enter the  union as a free state Buying and selling slaves in Washington,  D.C. was outlawed.  In the south, the land received from Mexico  was broken up into two states, New Mexico and Utah.  In these states, settlers decided whether they  wanted slavery or not. 

3. Fugitive slave act  a act that was seen as hash act passed to insure escaped slave returned if caught   it prohibited a trial for the slave  they could not testify on their own behalf  and the slave would have to return to the owner 

4. the law  the rights of the former slaves were compromised  6th amendment was broken do to the law forbidding them form a trial  also they could not testify on there behalf 

5. enforcement  it was well enforce because the commissioner that enforced the law would reseve $10 if the slave returned  but only $5 if let free any one found helping a a fugitive slave was finned 1,000 and or  6 months in prison  also bounties were placed by richer plantations 

6. Northern States against the fugitive slave act Northerners organized vigilance committees to send endangered african americans to safety in canada. Some resorted to violence to rescue fugitive slaves. Nine northern states passed personal liberty laws. These laws forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves, and guaranteed that they would have jury trials.

7. the conductors harriet tubman a leader in the railroads once a escaped slave   thomas garrett  a famed check point house  samuel burris  a leading conductor in Maryland  the railroad  it was a system used to help slave escape to the north  it was illegal and dangers for any one caught helping  it was a series tunnels trails and houses that led to the north providing food clothes and shelter to most who made it underground rail roads 

8. Uncle Tom's Cabin  Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin stirred strong reactions from North and South alike the north found it in shocking in how the south  treated the slave  the south was furious this is how they were    portrayed 

9. primary sourses  http://pathways.thinkport.org/library/people.cfm http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/ http://www.nationalcenter.org/FugitiveSlaveAct.html