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U.S Constitution - 3/5th Compromise 1787
The 3/5th compromise is when 3 out of 5 slaves counts as one person. This event is important because it's a way to count the slaves as a part of the population. -
Northwest Ordiance
The Northwest Ordinance provided a method to admit new states. This event is important because is laid the basis of the government of the Northwest territory. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave act was to return the slaves that have escaped. Helped change the idea of slavery. -
Invention of Cotton Gin
A machine that separates the cotton fiber from the seeds. This made the process of harvesting quicker and more effective. -
Ban on Slave Importation
A law that states no new slaves were permitted to be imported to America. Its important because slavery was trying to be stopped and this was one of the first big moves to end slavery. -
Missouri Compromise
To admit Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. A line was made at N36°30 to determine free states and slave states. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. Slaves killed rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people. -
South Carolina Nullification
South Carolina went to nullify the tariff acts. This is important -
Organization of the underground railroad
Secret routes and places to stay for escaping slaves. Harriett Tubman led more than 300 slaves to freedom through the railroad. -
Wilmat Proviso
A democratic member of the United States of Representatives. He is important because he stopped the expansion on slavery. -
Treaty of Guadalupe
Limited the settlement between the United States and Mexico. This stopped the American and Mexican war. -
Compromise of 1850
Five separate bills passed by the United States Congress. It important because it would transfer territory claimed by the state to the federal government. -
Uncle Toms Cabin Published
Anti slavery novel by Harriett Tubman.This book was written from her reaction on the fugitive slave laws. -
Kansas-Nebraska
This was an act that allowed both states to decide if they were going to be a free or slave state. If Kansas would be a slave state that would violate the Missouri compromise. -
Charles Sumner Attacked
American politician got beat up with a cane almost to death from Preston Brooks. He got beat up after a speech attacking slavery. -
Dred Scott Decision
An enslaved African American who sued for his freedom. But being a slave he lost. -
John Browns Raid at Harper Ferry
John Brown led a group on a raid in Harper's Ferry, Virginia to start a slave revolt. John Brown got caught and was sentenced to be hung for treason. -
Lincolns Election (November)
Lincoln again faced Douglass but he ended up being the 16th president. He beat John C. Breckenridge, John Bell,and Stephen Douglas. -
South Carolina Secedes from Union (December)
South Carolina became the first slave state in the south that seceded. Within Lincolns election 7 states seceded. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a war series from slavery. This is important because is declared war between the anti-slavery and slavery in the Kansas territory.
