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Africans arrive in virginia 1619
On August of 1619 a Dutch manof-war with about 20 Africans on board entered port at the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia. These slaves were considered indentured servants, and this arrival marked the beginning of a cruel trend in colonial America. African American people were taken involuntary from their country and were address to longlife slaves. -
John Punch the run away black servant
Jhon Punch, James Gregory, and a man named Victor were all indentured servants who would do anything to pursue freedom. These three man ran away and were captured within days. On July 1640 the Virginia Governor's Council sentenced Jhon Punch to longlife slavery, but gave James and Victor both white indentured Europeans four more years of slavery. -
The event of Nat Turner's Rebellion
On August 21, 1831 Nat an african american slave led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County. The incident ended the emancipation movement in that region and led to even harsher laws against slaves. -
The Mexican War
The Mexican War was a military conflict fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, in the wake of the 1845 U.S. Having recently attained Independence from Spain in 1821 Mexico was filled with internal struggles. Mexico threatened war with the U.S. if it attached Texas. President Polk's spirit of Manifest Destiny was focusing U.S. interest on westward expansion. -
The Compromise of 1850
In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate. Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. -
Fugative Slave Act of !850
Congress in 1793, the first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Kansas was allowed to determined whether it would enter the union as free or slave. Pro-slavery forces supported by the president at the time. However, there was enough opposition that in 1858 it was sent back to kansas for a vote. Kansas voters rejected the constitutuion and Kansas became a free state. -
John Brown’s Raid
On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harpper's Ferry, Virginia. He planned on getting weapons in federal arsenal and arm slaves with them and then work his way southward. John was captured but he did to deepen the divide between the North and South. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter
Abraham Lincoln made the decision to send fresh supplies to the beleaguered garrisons. Abraham Lincoln made the decision to send fresh supplies to the beleaguered garrisons. -
The elescton of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was a very strong advocate of the free soilers, and fro this reason the president cause a significant threat to the economic and political interests of the slaveholding South. His attempts at negotiation failed miserably; within the first months of his tenure, the divided nation was engaged in a full-blown Civil War.
