African Americans in the 19th century: 1800 c.e-1900 c.e: timeline activity 4

By carlitogilmore

  • The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is founded in New York City

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    African American in the 19th century

  • Unted States purchases Liousiana territory from France

  • Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa

  • The missouri compromise bans slavery north of the southern boundary of missouri

  • The first afican american theather company in the united states, the african company, is founded in new york

  • In New York John Brown Russwurm and Samuel Cornish publish the first African American newspaper in the U.S. Freedmen's Journey

  • Abolitionist William Lloyld Garrisons start to publish The Liberator, a firecely anti-slavery newspaper, in boston

  • Slave rebellion of Nat Turner

  • Height of activity of the Underground Railroad

  • Henry Blair is the first African American to recieve a patent

  • Fredrick Douglas publishes his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas, An American Slave

  • Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective and celebrated leaders of the Underground Railroad

  • Booker Taliaferro Washington is born

  • Dred Scott case declares that African Americans are not citzens of the U.S.,and congress has no power to restrict slavery in any federal territory

  • Harriet Wilson publishes Our nig, or sketches from life of a free black, the first novel by an African American women

  • John Brown and 21 followers capture the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected president

  • George H. White serves as the south's last black congressmen until 1972

  • Howard University Law School is founded

  • Holiness Movement and Pentwcoastal churches spread among African Americans

  • First Jim Crow law segregates trains in Tennessee

  • South Carolina disfranches black voters

  • Augustus Tolten ordained first African American Roman Catholic priest in rome

  • African Americans lynched in the United States

  • Booker T. Washington addresses the Cotton States Exposition in Alanta

  • Plessy v. Ferfuson upholds seperate but equal doctrine of racial segregtion

  • National Association of Colored Women founded

  • James W. Johnson writes "Lift Every Voice and Sing