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The North West Ordinance created a government for the Northwest Territory, listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory, and provided a method for admitting new states to the Union. Slavery was forever outlawed in the territory and provided freedom of religion and other civil liberties. (RED) (POLITICAL) -
Legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state in order to not upset tension between slave and free states in the nation. It also outlawed slavery about a set latitude line in the rest of the Louisiana Territory. (GREEN) (POLITICAL) -
A rebellion of enslaved Virginians led by Nat Turner in Southhampton Country. The rebels killed about 65 white men, women, and children as they tried to kill as many whites involved in slavery as possible. (RED) (SOCIAL)
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A series of rules that forbade discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives. (RED) (POLITICAL) -
A U.S. Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of Africans on La Amistad (the Spanish Schooner). (RED) (SOCIAL) -
When Texas was annexed by the U.S. and became the 28th state. (RED) (POLITICAL) -
A black slave who unsuccessfully sued for freedom. Under Louisiana law, he could not be a citizen because he was black which lead him back into slavery. (RED) (SOCIAL)
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A conflict between the U.S. and Mexico that followed the annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered it's territory. (RED) (POLITICAL)
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An unsuccessful proposal to ban slavery in territory acquired from mexico in the Mexican-American war. (RED) (SOCIAL) -
Gold was found by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill in California. The news spread and brought 300,000+ people to California from the rest of the U.S. and abroad. (RED) (ECONOMIC)
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Called for the admission of California as a free state and provided a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico. Also established a boundry between Texas and the U.S., called for the slave trade in Washington D.C. to end, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act. (GREEN) (POLITICAL) -
Required that slaves be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state. It made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves. (RED) (SOCIAL) -
Stowe shared ideas about the injustices of slavery, and shared light about and pushed back against cultural beliefs about the physical and emotional capacities of black people. (RED) (SOCIAL) -
A document advocating U.S. seizure of Cuba from Spain. (RED) (POLITICAL) -
An act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska in the land of the Louisiana Purchase. It ended up giving to many states to the nrother and weakened Kansas. (RED) (POLITICAL) -
Abolitionist John Brown seized the largest federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and forced people to reconsider the immorality of slavery. (RED) (SOCIAL) -
An unsuccessful proposal to permanently preserve slavery in the U.S. Constitution, making it unconstitutional an end to slavery in the furture. (RED) (POLITICAL)