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The first slaves arrive in America.
European colonists decided that endentured servants were too expencive and needed a new type of free servant. In 1619 the Dutch traders brought the first African American slaves to America, -
Slave trade abolished
Slave trade was in one of the Slavery Abolisiing Acts that prevented America from buying new slaves. -
Missouri Compromise
A compromise that said anyy states above 36 30' north was a free state and anywhere velow was a slave state. -
Wilmot Proviso
This was a document signed as part of the Treaty of the Mexican war that said that any land gained by the treaty was not allowed to have slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
This compromise made it so the free and slave states would be balanced. -
Fugitive Slave Acts (2 of them)
They were laws that allowed the capture of escaped slaves and return them to their masters. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
The book Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book that was against slavery and wanted to encourage people to Abolish slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
THe act allowed people in Kansas and Nebrasca to decide for themselves whether or not to support slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case
In this court case it was decided that African Americans born in America or not were not citizens of America and could not sue people in a court of law. -
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown and a group of men raided Harper's Ferry which was the SOuth's largest weapons storage area to give to the slaves so they can fight back.
