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Slaves Arrive in America
The first slaves were brought to North America boarded on a spanish ship headed for Jamestown. -
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Fugitive Slaves Act
It was a federal law that was written to enforce Article 4, section 2 of the US constitution. It forced the return of ranaway slaves to their masters. -
Missouri Compromise
It was passed in 1820 and was abolished in 1854 due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Missouri settled the feud between free and slave states. -
Wilmot Proviso
It was designed to abolish slavery after the Mexican War. David Wilmot sought to keep the territory anti-slavery but the southern-dominate senate had other plans.In 1848 Wilmot Proviso came to terms with Mexico. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was a part of Henry Clays Compromise of 1850. It forced citizen in helping capture ranaway slaves. -
Comprimise of 1850
Henry Clay present several resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a greater conflict between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin published
Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852. It was about slaves lives and it tried to pursuade people to fight against slavery. It had a huge inpact on the outcome of the Civil War. -
Bleeding Kansas
It unset the balance of the Missouri Comprimise and many free state settlers started moving into Kansas. -
Kansas-Nebaska Act
It was passed by congress on May 3, 1854. It gave the people of both territories the abilityto choose weather they wanted ot be a slave state or a free state. -
Dred Scott vs Sanford
It was a supreme court case on if slaves were considered citizens of the US or not. The court ended up ruling them non US citizens and that wouldn't be protected by the federal government. -
John Brown's raid Harper Ferry
John Brown issued an armed slaves revolt to take over the US arsenal at Harper Ferry, Virginia. -
Slave Trade Abolished
The slave trade was abolished in America by both the Northerners and Southerners. It was abolished after the Civil War.
