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Period: Jan 1, 1441 to Dec 31, 1441
First Slaves Ever Recorded
Portuguese explorer Antam Gonclaves takes the first slaves form Africa while exploring the Africian coast and took them back to Portugal. -
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American Revolution
The war in which America one it's freedom for the British and established a nation on freedom and equality for all, but under the constituiton blacks which made up a vast majority of the Southern part of the new United States were still not free and still were owned by their white masters and plantation owners. -
Writting of the Constitution
The writting of the Constitution which is the foundation of American laws and beleifs. It was intended to give all Americans freedom, but purposly left out blacks, so that the the newly founded Untied States would not fall apart because of slavery. It kept slavery legal so that the South could profit. -
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When Peculiar Institution Started In The South
Peculiar institution is a euphism for what reform took place at the begining to the middle of the 19th century in the South with the increasing hostility twoards the North and the increasing dependence of slave labor that built up to the Civil War. -
Compromise of 1820
It was the first compromise that would try to solve the problem of conflict between the South and the North over slavery. In the Comprosmise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine would be admitted as a free slave. Also it stated that the 36th parallel was where the border between free and all states admitted below this line would be slave and all states above this line would be free states. Also for every slave state admitted there must be a free state admittted. -
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The Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during Andrew Jackson’s presidency. The tariffs at the time were opposed in some states. South Carolina endorsed state rights and nullification which made the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 to be void within the state borders. The nullification provided a way to secede if the Union made any action to outlaw slavery. This way, they could keep slavery, inside the Union, or out. -
Compromise of 1850
compromise of 1850-five bills which stopped many sectional conflict for years. This compromise made every new state below the Missouri compromise line a eligible slave state. any new state above “the line” had to be a free state. -
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act opened land for a choice of slavery or not. There were many of the pro/anti-slavery citizens flooding kansas with their opinion of if the land should have slavery. The many citizens even tried harming the other opinion group, thus ending in small skirmishes. This act was originally created to make thousands of farms and a feasible mideastern transcontinental railroad, but divided the Union and looked straight at a civil war. -
The Dred Scott Decision
This was a decision made by the US supreme court in which all African descendants were slaves and weren’t protected by the constitution. Opponents of slavery loathed the dred scott decision. Many created speeches and/or written documents that tried to explain that this decision were wrong -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued to by the President Lincoln during the Civil War. This was made to free the slaves in the "slave states" This didn’t make the former slaves citizens. This only freed the slaves in the rebelling ten states and not in the border states. This was a hope for the slaves in the Southern states. But it still didn't make them citizens.
