EOTO

 Although I did not do EOTO this week, I expanded my learning on some topics and learned something new on others. There were two groups, proslavery and antislavery. In an EOTO (each one teach one), each member is to research something about their topic and share with the class what he or she learned. 

Proslavery: 

 

·      Kansas- Nebraska Act: Allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery based on popular sovereignty. Kansas wanted slaves but Nebraska did not. Because Kansas wanted slaves, this would violate the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

·      Bleeding Kansas: Spark of a civil war from 1854 to 1859. It was over the control of the new territory of the slave state of Kansas. A proslavery mob burned down an abolitionist newspaper in the town of Lawrence.

·      Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Runaway slaves must be returned to their owners. Kept slavery alive forcing northerners to participate in slavery. Sometimes free men that fit the description of the propaganda (example listed below) were kidnapped and sold into slavery. 

o   The movie, “12 Years a Slave” is based on false enslavement of a free African American man in Washington, DC.

·      Dred Scott v. Sanford: Decision was that African Americans were not citizens and not allowed to sue. 

 

Antislavery: 

·      Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: A fictional book written on the injustices of slavery. This book made slavery more personable to the North since it gave realistic stories on slavery. It angered Southerners because they felt that is gave a dramatic, inaccurate representation on slavery. It was illegal to own book eventually.

·      John Brown’s raid: An attempt of a slave revolt in October 16-18, 1859, by taking control of various US arsenal at Harpers Ferry. The aftermath was that abolitionist felt inspired and John Brown was persecuted for treason. 

o   Fun fact: John Wilkes Booth joined the militia that captured and executed John Brown and later assassinated 16^th President Abraham Lincoln 6 years later.

·      Underground Railroad: Were networks of secret routes and safehouse that enslaved African Americans took to escape to free Northern states. Almost 100,000 enslaved people have escaped. Despite the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793, the Underground Railroad remained successful