illustrated timeline

By mollyw

  • Invention of the cotten gin

    Invention of the cotten gin
    1. Eli Whitney
    2. A machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.
    3. United States of America
    4. March 14, 1794
    5. It made the seperation of cotton faster.
    6. made conflict because it demanded for more slavery.

  • The Embargo Act of 1807

    The Embargo Act of 1807
    1.America, Britain, and France
    2. imposed a general embargo that made any and all exports from the United States illegal.
    3. America
    4. December 22, 1807
    5. to force Britain and France to respect American rights during the Napoleonic Wars.
    6. Conflict because that was how the north got their goods.

  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    1. Louisiana purchase, Maine, Massachusets, Missouri
    2. an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.
    3. Citizens of the people in the states involved.
    4. March 3, 1820
    5. Bill passed Missouri as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel.
    6. conflict between north and south

  • The tariff of Abomination

    The tariff of Abomination
    1. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson
    2. Protective tariff designed to protect industry in the northern United States.
    3. United States
    4. May 19, 1828
    5. To protect industry in the northern United States from having to compete with European goods by increasing the prices of European products because imported goods were much cheaper than the ones that were made in the U.S.
    6. Conflict the south was hurt by this and threatened to secede.

  • The Compromise of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850
    1. Calhoun, Webster, and Clay
    2. an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.
    3. United States
    4. January 29, 1850
    5. the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
    6. Compromise because they were deciding the 5 territories.

  • Uncle Toms cabin

    Uncle Toms cabin
    1. Harriet Beecher St
    2. Book to encourage people to join the abolitionisnt movement.
    3. North state
    4. March 20, 1852
    5. She hoped to encourage people to join the movement top end slavery.
    6. conflict becasue southerners didnt like the book and northerners were getting angery about slavery.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    1. Kansas and Misouri 2.period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. The boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state.
    2. Kansas and Missouri
    3. May 30, 1854
    4. Was to let people vote for pro slavery or anti slavery.
    5. People started to get violent becuase of their different view points on slavery.

  • The Kansas Nebraska Act

    The Kansas Nebraska Act
    1. US Congress 2.It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. 3.Kansas and Nebraska
    2. May 30, 1854
    3. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
    4. Compromise becuase they came to a decision of slavery in the north and south.

  • John Brown's Raid

    John Brown's Raid
    1. John Brown
    2. John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. 3.Harper's Ferry, Virginia
    3. October 16, 1856
    4. Wanted the slaves to rebel. he took over Harpers Ferry to revolt.
    5. Conflict turuing violetn to end slavery

  • The Dred Scott Case

    The Dred Scott Case
    1. Dred Scott and Sanford 2.Dred Scott was sueing his owner for his citizenship because they moved to the north and the north were a non slave states. 3.Missouri
    2. March 6, 1857
    3. Because it showed that African Americans were still seen as property in the north. 6.conflict because the Dred Scot was mad he went back to slavery.

  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    1. Abraham Lincoln Republican John C. Breckinridge Democratic John Bell Constitutional Union Stephen A. Douglas Democratic
    2. Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination
    3. In all states but no territories
    4. November 6, 1860 5.The election changed American history. States rights, the role of slavery in the southern economy, the human rights aspects of slavery were all issues that faced the nation. 6.The southern states did not want Lincoln as president because he didnt want slavery.

  • South Carolina Secedes from the Union

    South Carolina Secedes from the Union
    1. South Carolina
    2. South Carolina seceded from the union
    3. America
    4. December 20, 1860
    5. South Carolina didnt want Lioncoln as president and they felt like they had no choice but to leave the union if they wanted slavery.
    6. conflict because it wa an event that led to the civil war.