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wen slaves first came to america
inmagen this you are on a boat that is racing back and fourth you don't no what liesa a hed but you did not desied to go there anyway. people have taken you from your home land and you don't understand what the are saying that is what thought people were felling at that time. -
Slave trade abolished
it was wen the slave trad was trying to be stoped the person that signed it was Thomas Jefferson. it was aproved by congerrouse a day before . -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
.Wilmot Proviso
was designed to eliminate slavery withn land acquired as a result of the mexican was. -
Compromise of 1850
was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American Wa -
Fugitive Slave Acts (2 of them)
Despite the inclusion of the Fugitive Slave Clause in the U.S. Constitution, anti-slavery sentiment remained high in the North throughout the late 1780s and early 1790s, and many petitioned Congress to abolish the practice outright. Bowing to further pressure from Southern lawmakers—who argued slave debate was driving a wedge between the newly created states—Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. -
.Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
it was a anty slavery book publuished in 1852 it sold 300,000 copies within three months. president abraham lincoln met the auther in 1862 he reportedly said "so this is the little lady who made this big war" the authers name was stowe he was born in 1811. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case date of this event
this was a case of making shere it was legal to on slaves in to the western territorys.they did not whant to lisen to the newly formed repudlicans. -
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
On the evening of October 16, 1859 John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. Descending upon the town in the early hours of October 17th, Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal.
