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1492
European discovery of the "New World"
First African crew hands to land in the New World, paving the way for a near 300 years of concurrent slavery in the nations to come. -
Period: 1508 to
Slavery in pre/present United States of America
Legal enslavement of African peoples spanning the discovery, settlements, colonies, and finally the United States spanning nearly 400 years. -
First African Slaves in English America
The first "Indentured Servants" were brought to the English Settlement of Jamestown. They were captured from a Slave ship and agreed to pay their debts off by working. -
Birth of a nation
Birth of the United States, deceleration of independence signed. -
US constitution ratified
Constitution ratified by 9 states, allowed the domestic trade of African slaves, but prohibited importation, still, pirating and smuggling slaves into the US was very common and loosely informed. Most northern states outlawed slavery, starting the rift that would always separate the Union. -
Invention of the Cotton Gin, Fugitive Slave act of 1793
Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Engine, with capabilities to produce cotton and clean it 10 times faster than by slave hand. Initially made to decrease the need for slaves, farmers bought more gins and more slaves to increase even more production. Congress then passed the Fugitive Slave Act, where if slaves were to run off, the were to be captured even if in free states, and brought back to their masters. -
Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1820 was to make sure the amount of slave and free man states were equal in the union, to equalize the amount of power each economy had, it sealed the fate of the union of a balanced power that each had a chance of deafeating each other in war. From here on, every compromise of the institution of slavery rose tensions even more. -
Nat Turner’s rebellion
To protest the institution of slavery, Nat Turner gathered many freed many, former slaves, and abolitionist to burn plantations, arm slaves, and kill their masters and start insurrection until all slaves were free, after two or three riots, white man revolted and killed many of these people, Nat Turner was later founded and brutally beat and disembodied. -
Mexican-American War
Under the James Polk administration, the United States was focused on its God given right of "Manifest Destiny", its duty to claim lands west all the way to the pacific, to share its almost perfect democracy. It was heavily critisized as a successful attempt to claim more territory and lands as slave states. Once the war ended in 1848, Texas was a separate republic for 8 years until admitted to the union as a slave states as well as New Mexico and Arizona, California and Nevada. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
An important novel changing the course of American History, acclaimed to have contribute to the final straws leading to the Civil war. The book was written about a first hand account of the institution of slavery and it's horrors, it had high promises and effects in the north and viewed as a piece of holiness, but in the south it was to them all lies and slander. Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author and he sold over 80 million copies and. -
Bleeding Kansas
In 1855, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was designed to allow new territories to decide wether or not slavery would be allowed using popular sovereignty. This caused extreme tensions in these territories, and two types of people rose. Border ruffians and free staters, and a small civil war took place in the Midwest. -
Lincoln’s Campaign for President
During 1858-1861, Abraham Lincoln was
