What Are The Causes Of Nat Turner's Rebellion

The Civil War was the bloodiest war fought on American soil. The Civil War was a war against the North and the South. The first shots were fired in 1861 and the last were in 1865. However the three most important events of the Civil War were the Nat Turner’s rebellion, the Fugitive Slave Act and Bleeding Kansas. One of the bloodiest uprisings during the Civil War was Nat Turner's Rebellion. Nat Turner and his followers set out to massacre every white person they came across. Turner’s rebel slave killed anywhere from 55 to 65 white people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave revolt in the southern United States. In the aftermath, white militia organized a retaliation against. Virginia executed 56 for participating in the rebellion. Nat Turner was tried, convicted and hanged.
About a thousand escaped each year to the North. They would disappear along the underground railroad. Once the slaves reached freedom (the North), they were not required to be returned to their masters. This enraged slaveholders, so they took action. As a result in 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was put into place. Bleeding Kansas is the period of violence during the settling of Kansas. The Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified the Missouri compromise and instead used popular sovereignty. Free-state and proslavery settlers rushed into Kansas hoping to influence their opinions and ideas into the state's decision. Soon violence attacks started to occur. Including John Brown's raid on Harper’s Ferry. In conclusion, the civil war war was the on American turf. Some events leading up the the Civil War were Nat turner’s rebellion , the Fugitive Slave Act, and Bleeding