Acoustic Curry

By jmantooth20
  • Slaves Arrive

    Slaves Arrive

    Slaves first started arriving in the United States in 1619. They were brought here for trade to help the production of cash crops increase.
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  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

    Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

    This gauranteed a slave owner the rightful recover of an escaped slave.
  • Slave Trade Abolished

    Slave Trade Abolished

    This happened on March 25, 1807. Former president Thomas Jefferson signed this act.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    Congress passed a bill allowing Missouri statehood as a slave state.
  • Wilmont Proviso

    Wilmont Proviso

    President James K. Polk did this.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    Five bills were passed, and they all stopped a four year confrontation between Mexico and America.
  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

    Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

    This act came because the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, was often ignored. This one gave harsher punishment to a slave or anyone helping the slave.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin published

    Uncle Tom's Cabin published

    This was a book written as an anti-slavery novel. By Harriet Beacher Snow.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas

    This started in 1854 and went all the way through to 1861. This was a series of violent political warfare.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

    This allowed people in the territories of places like Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
  • Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case

    Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case

    This ruling said that black Americans, slave or not, could not sue and were not American citizens.
  • John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

    John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

    John Brown's raid on Harper's ferry was a effort by a white abolitionist to start an armed slave revolt.