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1801
CONGRESS EXTENDS MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA SLAVERY LAWS TO DC MAKING SLAVE CODE FEDERAL -
LOUISIANA PURCHASE
The purchase doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution. -
1806
VIRGINIA REQUIRES FREED BONDSMEN TO LEAVE STATE WITHIN ONE YEAR -
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
US BANS SLAVE TRADE -
WAR OF 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its allies -
SEMINOLE WARS BEGIN
The First Seminole War (1817–18) began over attempts by U.S. authorities to recapture runaway black slaves living among Seminole bands. Under General Andrew Jackson, U.S. military forces invaded the area, scattering the villagers, burning their towns, and seizing Spanish-held Pensacola and St. Marks. -
1819
CANADA FORBIDS AMERICAN GOVERNMENT TO PURSUE RUNAWAYS IN CANADA ESTABLISHMENT OF LIBERIA FOR RETURNING FREE MEN FROM NORTH AMERICA US ANNEXES EAST FLORIDA, A FORMER REFUGE FOR FREEDOM SEEKERS -
MISSOURI COMPROMISE
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state -
1821 to 1828
KENTUCKY REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT RESOLUTION TO CONGRESS PROTESTING CANADA'S RECEPTION OF FREEDOM SEEKERS DENMARK VESEY CONSPIRACY IN SOUTH CAROLINA PENNSYLVANIA ANTI-KIDNAPPING LAW TO PROTECT FREE BLACKS FUTURE CONDUCTOR JOHN RANKIN MOVES TO LIBERTY HILL, OHIO DAVID WALKER'S APPEAL FOR BLACKS TO REVOLT AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSORS IS PUBLISHED -
1829
WILBERFORCE, CANADA, FOUNDED MEXICO ABOLISHES SLAVERY NAT TURNER REVOLT IN VIRGINIA WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON BEGINS THE LIBERATOR -
1831
NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY ESTABLISHED LOUISIANA PRESENTS RESOLUTION REQUESTING FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO ARRANGE WITH MEXICO TO RETURN FREEDOM SEEKERS TO LOUISIANA -
1872
PUBLICATION OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD BY WILLIAM STILL SLAVERY ABOLISHED IN PUERTO RICO