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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
This gauranteed a slave owner the rightful recover of an escaped slave. -
Slave Trade Abolished
This happened on March 25, 1807. Former president Thomas Jefferson signed this act. -
Missouri Compromise
Congress passed a bill allowing Missouri statehood as a slave state. -
Wilmont Proviso
President James K. Polk did this. -
Compromise of 1850
Five bills were passed, and they all stopped a four year confrontation between Mexico and America. -
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
This was a book written as an anti-slavery novel. By Harriet Beacher Snow. -
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
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
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 was a effort by a white abolitionist to start an armed slave revolt.
