Civil War

Civil War

1861 BCE

Civil War began between north and south in the United States.

Army of volunteers

1861 BCE

During the Civil War, the confederate Congress authorizes an army of volunteers.

Insurrection

1861 BCE

In Washington, President Lincoln announced an "insurrection," and calls for 75,000 troops to be raised from the militia of the several States of the Union.

Secedes from the Union

1861 BCE

During 1861 several states secedes from the Union. Virginia, Arkansas,North Carolina, and also including Tennessee.

Elected President

1860 BCE

Abraham Lincoln was the elected 16th president from Republican candidate. His views about slavery were considered moderate during the nomination and election, South Carolina had warned it would secede if he won.

Dred Scott Decision

1857 BCE

Dred Scott said he should be free because he had been held as a slave while living in a free state. So that The Court ruled that his petition could not be seen because he did not hold any property. This decision furthered the cause the salver.

Lecompton Constitution Rejected

1857 BCE

As the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, Kansas was allowed to determine whether it would enter the union as free or slave. The Lecompton Constitution was created allowing for Kansas to be a slave state. But Pro-slavery forces supported by President James Buchanan attempted to push the Constitution through the US Congress for acceptance

Bleeding Kansas shocked Northerners

1854 BCE

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed allowing the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide for themselves using popular sovereignty whether they wanted to be free or slave. Therefore Kansas had become a hotbed of violence as pro- and anti-slavery forces fought over the state's future to the point where it was nicknamed 'Bleeding Kansas'.

Uncle Tom's Cabin Was Released

1852 BCE

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book shows the evils of slavery and had a huge impact on the way that northerners viewed slavery.

Mexican War Ended

1848 BCE

The end of the Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico adds territory to the United States.

Liberator

1831 BCE

William Lloyd Garrison publishes the first issue of the abolitionist journal, the Liberator.

The Nat Turner Rebellion

1831 BCE

Also known as the Southampton Insurrection, it was a slaver rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. The leader is Nat Turner. Over 60 whites were killed in the uprising. Turner was on the run for or nearly two months, but was eventually caught and hanged

Tariffs

1828 BCE

Congress again raises tariffs with the Tariff of Abominations. The tariff increasing the United States economy northern, but it is not great to the southern. And the Tariff kinda decreasing the trade with other contries.

Abolishes slavery

1827 BCE

The state of New York abolishes slavery. It continued with the indenture of children born to slave mothers until their 20s

Missouri

1821 BCE

Missouri becomes the 24th state and enters the Union as a slave state.

Missouri Compromise

1820 BCE

The Missouri Compromise is negotiated allowing Maine as a slave state to be admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in 1821. The act balanced between free and slave states.

Maine

1820 BCE

Maine becomes the 23rd state and enters the Union as a as a free one.

Alabama

1819 BCE

Alabama becomes the 22nd state and enters the Union as a slave state.

Illinois

1818 BCE

Illinois becomes the 21st state and enters the Union and also as a free state.

Mississippi

1817 BCE

Mississippi becomes the 20th state and enters the Union as a slave state.

Indiana

1816 BCE

Indiana becomes the 19th state and enters the Union but it is a free state.

Louisiana

1812 BCE

Louisiana becomes the 18th state and enters the Union as a slave state.

For new slaves

1807 BCE

Congress passes a law banning the importation of any new slaves who enters into the United States effective. Later The 1807 act was a comprehensive attempt to close the slave trade. By passing the law in March, Congress gave all slave traders 9 months to close down their operations in the United States.

Gradual Emancipation Act

1804 BCE

New Jersey's state legislature announces a gradual emancipation act. This would have gradually freed slaves and given plantation owners and slaveholders the chance to slowly adapt.

17th state

1803 BCE

Ohio becomes the seventeenth state and enters the Union as a free state. The Louisiana Purchase roughly doubles the size of the United States.

Census again

1800 BCE

As for the total population, slaves is 17% of the population. Slaves are virtually non-existent in northern states and as high as 42% in South Carolina and 39% in Virginia.

Gabriel Prosser

1800 BCE

Slave Gabriel Prosser leads a group of armed slaves in rebellion but Governor Monroe crushed the rebellion.

Tennessee

1796 BCE

Tennessee becomes the 16th state and enters the Union, it is a slave state.

Eli Whitney's patent

1794 BCE

Eli Whitney a northerner invented the cotton gin in the United States, in 1794. This modern machine increased the production of cotton, at this time cotton became a new valuable crop for America. Therefore increasing the need and production value for slaves. And also the cotton gin was the significant machine later.

First Fugitive Slave Act

1793 BCE

the Congress passes the first Fugitive Slave Act. It required every state, including those that forbade slavery, to forcibly return slaves who had escaped from other states to their owners

Kentucky

1792 BCE

Kentucky becomes the15th state and enters the Union. It is a slave state.

Vermont

1791 BCE

Vermont became the 14th state and entered the Union as a free state.

First national census

1790 BCE

As for the first national census, the total population reflected the number of slaves in the United States of America, Massachusetts and Vermont have no slaves. 43% of the population in South Carolina are slaves and 39% for Virginia and 35% for Georgia.

Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia

1787 BCE

At the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, five stats called for Constitution Convention, in order to pass the Article of Confederation.

3/5 slaves

1787 BCE

Besides Constitutional Convention, the United States Constitution is ratified and slaves are counted as three-fifths of a person and enjoy no rights of citizenship.

Massachusetts

1783 BCE

Slavery was effectively abolished in Massachusetts.The court used the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, that state "all men are born free and equal", as the basis for saying that slavery was abolished under the Massachusetts Constitution, which include the Declaration of Rights.

Pennsylvania

1780 BCE

Pennsylvania passes an Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, 1780

Vermont

1777 BCE

Vermont is a colony but not a state, Vermont was the first of the former British colonies to ban slavery

Declaration of Independence

1776 BCE

Written largely by Thomas Jefferson, the document declares "all men are created equal." Jefferson and many of the signers of the document are slave holders.

Pennsylvania Abolition Society

1755 BCE

Benezet called the first meeting of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully held in Bondagevii at the Rising Sun Tavern.And it was called Pennsylvania Abolition Society. The group focused on intervention in the cases of blacks and Indians who claimed to have been illegally enslaved

Insurrection

1739 BCE

In the town of Stono, South Carolina a band of slaves starts an insurrection. Previous runaway slaves had made their way to Florida. Because they can get freedom and land.

First organized protest against slavery

1688 BCE

In Germantown,PA, a group of Quaker drafted The first organized protest against slavery in the new world.Known as the Germantown Protest. Gerret Hendericks, Derick up de Graeff, Francis Daniell Pastorius, and Abraham up den Graef wrote this protest and presented their opposition to slavery and the trafficking of human beings at a Monthly Meeting at Dublin in Philadelphia.

A large immigrants

1682 BCE

A large wave of immigrants, including many Quakers, arrives in Pennsylvania from Germany and the British Isles.

salves free

1667 BCE

Virginia passes a law revoking the prior English law that allowed for slaves that converted to Christianity to become free. And later in 18th century, the congress considered the slaves could vote.

Slavery started in Maryland

1663 BCE

Maryland becomes the first colony to enact laws that recognize slavery for life. Under prior English law slaves who became Christians were granted freedom.

Slavery

1641 BCE

Massachusetts Bay Colony becomes the first colony to legalize slavery.

Roger Williams

1636 BCE

Roger Williams founds Providence and Rhode Island. Williams had been banished from Massachusetts for religious and political freedoms, including separation of church and state, not granted under the Puritan rules. Providence then becomes a new place for many other colonists fleeing religious intolerance.

John Winthrop

1630 BCE

He was the first governor and served in Massachusetts Bay. He lead a Puritan migration to Massachusetts Bay. As in 1629 he joined the Massachusetts Bay Company.

Mayflower ship lands at Cape Coe

1620 BCE

November 9, the Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with 101 colonists. On November 11, the Mayflower Compact is signed by the 41 men. And also during this year Mayflower Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts

Beginning of slavery

1619 BCE

1619 is the beginning year of slavery in the United States. English settlers in Virginia purchase 20 Africans from a Dutch ship. These Africans were sold as indentured servants.

Jamestown

1607 BCE

1st. permanent English settlement in America. Jamestown, Virginia

Triangular trade

1500 BCE

Triangular Trade was a system in which slaves, crops and so on. The trade was between Africa the Caribbean, Western Europe, United States, and Africa. This trade brought lots of slaves to the United States, and later the slaves in the United States involved the American history.