Underground Railroad for Kids: From Slavery to Freedom with 21 Activities

Underground Railroad for Kids: From Slavery to Freedom with 21 Activities — page 5
Missouri Compromise admits Missouri 1820 as a slave state and Maine as a free state 1829 The Appeal by David Walker urges slaves to revolt 1830s First uses of the term Underground Railroad 1833 American Anti slavery Society founded 1842 Dawn settlement founded 1849 Harriet Tubman escapes slavery Elgin settlement founded 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe published U S Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision declares that 1857 blacks are not citizens U S population of 31 4 million includes 4 million 1860 enslaved persons Abraham Lincoln elected the sixteenth U S president Congress rules that black soldiers must receive the same 1864 pay as white soldiers Fourteenth Amendment grants African Americans U S 1868 citizenship Fifteenth Amendment grants African American men vot 1870 ing rights