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Nat Turner
A Virginia Slave and preacher, Nat Turner, led a two-day uprising against whites which killed about 60. Militiamen stopped the revolt then spent two months searching for Turner, who was eventually caught and hanged. As a result the enraged Southerners decided to impose harsher restrictions on their slaves. -
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APUSH: Slavery in the South
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The Amistad Revolt
A slave revolt aboard the Amistad resulted in the United States Supreme Court deciding to affirm that the schooner's African American captives were free individuals with the right to resist "unlawful" slavery. -
The Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso attempts to ban slavery in territory gained in the Mexican War. The proviso is blocked by Southerners, but continues to enflame the debate over slavery. -
The Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman escapes slavery and goes back multiple times to help hundreds of others escape. This is later called the Underground Railroad. -
The Events of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 brought The District of Columbia being banned from the public sale of slaves, opened up the rest of the lands seized from Mexico to settlement by slave owners, and committed the United States government to enforcement of a new fugitive slave law. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is published. It became one of the most influential books about anti-slavery sentiments and sold over 300,000 copies in one year. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act said that a popular vote of Americans would determine if territories became free or slave states. The Republican Party wanted to prevent new slave states and quickly became the majority party in nearly every northern state. -
The Dred Scott v. Sandford
The Dred Scott v. Sandford case ending with the United States Supreme Court ruling that blacks were not citizens of the United States and denied Congress the ability to prohibit slavery in any federal territory. -
Civil War Begins
Southern states seceded and the United States Civil War began. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all persons held as slaves within the Confederate state "are, and henceforward shall be free."
