Maroons - were a group of runaway slaves that formed their own communities.

Nat Turner - he was convinced that God had selected him to punish white people through "terror and devastation". Then one night in 1831 Turner and six confederates murdered Turner's master and family. Recruiting some 70 slaves. They killed 57 white men, women, and children. The revolt lasted only 48 hrs.

Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding Kansas - was opened or signed in 1854. The remaining portion of Louisiana Purchase to slavery under t

Gabriel Prosser - in 1800 he recruited perhaps a couple hundred slaves in a plan to march on Richmond and capture the govenor. But some slaves betrayed the plot and had Prosser and other leaders executed.

Omnibus Bill (re: Slavery expanding West) - required that the components of the compromise be approved as a package.

Compromise of 1850 - addressed all the major controversies between the two sections. California, he proposed, should be admitted as a free state, which represented the clear wishes of most settlers there. The rest of the Mexican cession would be organized as two territories, New Mexico and Utah, under the doctrine of popular sovereignty.

John Brown - In 1857 John Brown and 21 followers including 5 free Blacks had a plant to attack

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