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John Locke
John Locke was someone who wanted natural law. He wanted the government to protect slaves law. -
Bacon's Rebellion
- Nathaniel Bacon
- Gathered farmers and indentured servants (both black and white), scared rich whites.
- Burned down Jamestown
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new York Slave Rebellion
- 23 Africans started it, and it spread to others.
- Happened in New York City
- 70 arrested; 27 put on trial; 21 convicted, executed.
- Killed 9 whites, injured 6 more
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America Revolution
The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. -
Lift Band
George Washigton was on African Americans on lift bands the conteiental army -
Declaration of Inpendence Inpendence
To announce and explain separation from Great Britain
56 delegates to the Continental Congress -
Northwest Ordinance
An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio -
Three Fifths Compromise
an agreement between Southern and Northern states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia -
Constitution Passed
the supreme law of the United States of America
three Articles of the Constitution establish the rules and separate powers of the three branches of the federal government: a legislature, the bicameral Congress; an executive branch led by the President; and a federal judiciary headed by the Supreme Court -
Haitian Slave Revolution
three classes
-whites
-free blacks
-slave
orginally ruled by french. more african culture -
fugtive slave act
state rights
- slave owners could retrieve slaves that escaped
$500 fine -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney events the cotton gin, cotton no longer a big crop. -
slave trade act
sailing slaves was ilgeal -
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slave trade act
no more slave trnsation, now ilgeal -
Gabriel's Conspiracy
- Planned revolt in summer
- In Richmond it was postponed due to the rain
- Two slaves told their owner: no reward
- Gabriel escaped to Norfolk; captured
- Hanged; himself, two brothers, and 23 other slaves involved.
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Louisana Purchase
An event for slavery, thry bought land. a big terrITORY was 828 sqaure miles -
Haitian Slave Ends
3,000 - 5,000 were killed -
Slavery Ofically Outlawed
Nomore slavery -
Louisiana Slave Rebellion
- New Orleans: Haitian refugees
- Deslondes Leads 180 men and women
- Burned plantations, killed two whites
- New Orleans: Haitian refugees
- Deslondes Leads 180 men and women
- Burned plantations, killed two whites
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Missouri Compromise
slave states or not
southern states and agruements with northen states
made some territoires non and slave -
Nat Turner
- More than 40 slaves most on horse back
- Turner saw visions that encouraged him to rebel
- The first people they killed were the Travis family
- Got a bunch of people and killed about 55 whites
- Nat Turner escaped, and hid for 4 months. He was hanged, and skinned.
- Rebels has stabbed, shot and clubbed at least 55 white people to death
- 200 black people, many of them were not involved in the rebellion, were murdered by
- White mobs.
- Slavery continued
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La Amistad
19th-century two-masted schooner built in Spain and owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. While transporting African captives from Havana to Puerto Principe, Cuba in July 1839, the Africans took control of the ship.
