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Pennsylvania Abolishes Slavery
Who: Pennsylvania
What: The first state to abolish slavery in america. A free state that slaves could escape to and be seen equal to everyone else.
When: 1780
Where: Pennsylvania
Importance: A leadng example to the rest of america that slavery isnt acceptable and everyone should be seen equal.
Conflict or Compromise: Conflict becase many states saw this as a huge threat to keeping slavery legal. -
Invention of the Cotton Gin
Who:Eli Whitney Inventor
What: A machine to separate the cotton from the seeds. It also made the process alot faster.
When: 1794
Importance: Made production alot faster, and allowed production to be alot faster.
Conflict or Compromise: Compromise because it made work for slaves easier and less strenous. -
Embargo Act of 1807
Who: Thomas Jefferson
What Thomas Jefferson stoped trade with all countries trying to stop Great Britian from restricting trade. It back fired and was gotten rid of in 1809.
Where: America and Great Britian
When: 1809
Importance: Shows Great Britian trying to control America and Americans in response creating the Embargo Act.
Conflict or Compromise: It was a compromise put in place to try and end a conflict. -
The Missouri Compromise
Who: Submitted by Henry Clay
What: Involed the regulation of slavery in the Western Territories. It prohibited slavery in the Louisana Territory.
When:1820
Where:Western Territories of America
Importance: Shows movemnet toward abolishing slavery because Congress is creating slave states and anti-slave states. Tentions on point of view of the issue become more intense.
Conflict or Compromise: Compromise to please both slavery states and anti-slave states. -
New York Abolishes Slavery
Who: Slaves become free in NY
What: New York abolished slavery in the state. Allowing slaves to be free and have equal rights.
When: 1827
Where: New York
Importance: Was a big step in abolishing slavery in New York and a movemnet to abolish it all over the United States.
Conflict or Compromise: Compromise for New York because now everyone was equal, but the Southern States saw it as a conflict because they wasnted to keep slavery in existence. -
The Tariff of Abomination
Who: Passed by Congress to protect the North
What:Put in place to protect Nothern industries from cheap imported goods, but made the South bad because they had to pay more for the new non-imported goods
When:1828
Importance: Congress trying to help local businesses from cheap import goods, driving local businesses out
Conflict or Compromise: Compromise to try and help out local businesses stay a float.
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Nat Trune's Rebellion
Who: Nat Turner
What: Largest slave rebellion in the South killing anywhere from 55 to 65 people.
When: 1831
Where: Southampton County, Virginia
Importance: Gave other slaves the idea that it was possible to overthrow their owner and escape the plantations.
Conflict or Compromise: Conflict because it sturred up slaves and started a slave rebellion. -
War of Mexico and Treaty of Guadalupe
Who: Northerners and Southerners
What: Northerners were mad becasue they saw the south seeking more land to put plantations on and more slaves.
When: 1846
Where: Southern part of US, Mexico bourder
Importance:
Conflict or Compromise: Conflict because it caused the North to become upset because the south was expanding and gettting more slaves. -
The Compromise of 1850
Who: Congress passing 5 bills
What:Five bills passed by congress to stop a four year confrontation between slave states and free states.
When:1850
Where:Northern and Southern States
Importance: Reduced sectional conflict.
Conflict or Compromise:Compromise to ease tensions between slave states and free states. -
The Fugative Slave Act
Who: Slaves rights
What: Denied run away slaves trial by jury
When: 1850
Where: The Americas South
Importance: Slaves had no rights and didnt need to have a trial
Conflict or Compromise: Conflict because it caused many slaves to be mad a want to rise up and gain freedon and rights. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who: Harriet Beecher Stowe
What: A anti-slave novel becoming the best selling novel of the 19th century.
When: 1851
Importance: A clear picture that slavery was not wanted by many americans and went to buy her book to show that.
Conflict or Compromise: Conflict because it is another example of tensions between the North and the Soutth building. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who: Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas
What: Opened new land for settlement, and repealed the Missouri Compromise
When:1854
Where:Western Territories of The United States
Importance: Repealed the Missouri Compromise allowing slavery in the Western Territories of America.
Conflict or Compromise: Conflict because it caused alot of debate and tension between the North and the South. -
Bleeding Kansas
Who: Violent Political Confrontations in the United States
What: Whether Kansas would allow or outlaw slavery, and enter the Union as a slave state or a free state.
When: 1855
Where: Kansas Territory
Importance: Shows evidence america is starting to split and something needs to happen to stop it.
Conflict or Compromise: Conflict because it was for one violent and was deciding whether Kansas would be a slave state of not to be a slave state. -
The Dredd Scott Case
Who: Dredd Scott
What: Dredd Scott a black slave sued his owner because he escaped from him to a free state, demanding he his free rights. The Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decsion that they had no power to grant him freedom.
When: 1857
Where: Supreme Court
Importance: Only the second time in its history the Supreme Court ruled an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional
Conflict or Compromise: -
John Brown's Raid
Who: White abolitionists John Brown
What: A attempt to start an armed slave revolt
When:1859
Where: West Virginia
Importance: First real sign of a civil war
Conflict or Compromise: Conflict because he was trying to start a civil war and ralley up support from existing slaves. -
The Election of 1860
Who: Abrahman Lincoln and John Breckinridge
What: America at this time was breaking apart and it needed someone like Abraham Lincoln to control the uneasy and unsure American citizens.
When: 1860
Where: Washington DC
Importance: Was elected to help calm down relations between the North and the South. If something wasn't done now the country would split apart.
Conflict or Compromise: Conflict because america was splitting and people were unsure of Americas future. -
South Carolina Secedes From The Union
Who: South Carolina
What: The first southern state to declare its session and to form later the Confederacy.
When:1860
Where: South Carolina
Importance: South Carolina was the first which sparked other states to do the same. South Carolina was a leading example for others to follow in its foot steps.
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