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Important Events: The Road to the Civil War
The important events of the Road to the Civil War. -
John Locke
John Locke was born in 1632. He was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1675 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland would take place later that year. About a thousand Virginians (including former indentured servants, poor whites and poor blacks) rose up in arms against the rule of Virginia Governor William Berkeley. The exact date when it star is unknown. -
New York Slave Rebellion
The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 was an uprising in New York City of 23 enslaved Africans who killed nine whites and injured another six. More than three times that number of blacks, 70, were arrested and jailed. Of these, 27 were put on trial, and 21 convicted and executed. -
George Washington Lifts ban on African Americans in the continental Army December 30th, 1775
It refers to discrimination against any persons of African descent who have served in the U.S. military from its creation during the Revolutionary War to the end of segregation by President Harry S. Truman's Executive Order 9981 in 1948 that officially ended segregation in the U.S. military. -
American Revolution 1775-1783
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the American War of Independence,[8] or simply the Revolutionary War in the United States, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, but gradually grew into a world war between Britain on one side and the United States, France, Netherlands and Spain on the other. The main result was an American victory, with mixed results for the other powers. -
Declaration of Independence 4th 1776
The Declaration of independance started on July 4th 1776. It was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Adams had put forth a resolution earlier in the year, making a subsequent formal declaration inevitable. -
Three Fifths Compromise 1787
The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. It was proposed by delegates James Wilson and Roger Sherman. -
Northwest Ordinance 1787
It was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, passed July 13, 1787. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. -
Constitution Passed 1789
The first ten constitutional amendments ratified by three-fourths of the states in 1791 are known as the Bill of Rights. It went to the effect on March 4, 1789 -
The Haitian Slave Revolution Starts 1791
The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was a slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Haitian republic. The Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a state. The revolution was one of the two successful attempts, along with the American Revolution, to achieve permanent independence from a European colonial power for an American state before the 19th century. -
Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin 1793
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job that otherwise must be performed painstakingly by hand. The fibers are processed into clothing or other cotton goods, and any undamaged seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil and meal. These machines were invented by Eli Whitney. -
Fugitive Slave Trade Act of 1794: (Ends Slave Trade 1808)
The Slave Trade Act of 1794 was a law passed by the United States Congress that limited American involvement in the trade of human cargo. This was the first of several acts of Congress that eventually stopped the importation of slaves to the United States. The owning of slaves would later be made illegal in the U.S. by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. -
Gabriel's Conspiracy 1800
Also known as Gabriel Prosser, was a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in the summer of 1800. Information regarding the revolt was leaked prior to its execution, and he and twenty-five followers were taken captive and hanged in punishment. In reaction, Virginia and other state legislatures passed restrictions on free blacks, as well as prohibiting the education. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. -
Haitian Slave Ends
Haitian Revolution ends. However, was much more complex, consisting of several revolutions going on simultaneously. -
Slavery Officially Outlawed 1808
In the first decades of the 19th century, no one realistically imagined the abolition of such a despicable institution, but there was considerable pressure to abolish the Atlantic slave trade, or the continued importation of bonded Africans onto American soil. On 2 March 1807 Thomas Jefferson signed a bill abolishing the slave trade to take effect on 1 January 1808. -
Louisiana Rebellion
The Rebellion of 1768 was an unsuccessful attempt by Creole and German settlers around New Orleans, Louisiana to stop the handover of the French Louisiana Territory, as had been stipulated in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, to Spain in 1768. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. Prior to the agreement, the House of Representatives had refused to accept this compromise, and a conference committee was appointed. -
Nat Turner Slave Rebellion 1831
It was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia during August 1831. Got a group together killed, 55 whites, caught 55 Africans and execute them, 200 killed by white mobs. -
La Amistad
It began since ancient times, sailed from Cuba, 35 slaves, the ship was The Washington. Africans got free of the shackle, took over La Amistad, took the crew ship, sailed back to Africa.
Supreme Court Rules them free, back to Africa.
2,000 people died on slave ships.
