Pace

Slave Timline

By Bright-Eyes Mermoud

  • Slaves come to America

    Slaves come to America
    Slavery in America started when slaves were brought to the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to help in the production of such wanted crops like tobacco.

  • 1st fugitive slave act

    1st fugitive slave act
    Many Northerners would protect slaves that would come to them even though, Article 4, section 2 of the Constitution said that slaves who escaped to free states had to be surrendered to their owners upon demand.

  • Slave trade abolished

    Slave trade abolished
    The Slave Trade Act, was an Act of the Parliament of the UK passed 25 March 1807, called "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade".

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    This was to keep the balance of free states and slave states. This had Main as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.

  • Wilmot Proviso

    David Wilmot introduced the proviso in the US House of Representatives, as a rider on a $2,000,000 appropriations bill for the negotiations to solve the Mexican–American War.

  • 2nd fugitive slave act

    2nd fugitive slave act
    The North and the South were having hard times following the constitution when it came to slaves. The 1850 act provided federal commissioners to conduct hearings to grant or deny certificates allowing slave owners to take back fugitive slaves.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Henry Clay introduced a bunch of resolutions to make a compromise between the North and the South.

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
    It is an anti-slavery book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This "helped lay the groundwork for the civil war."- Will Kaufman.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    This act was passed by congress allowing the people of Kansas-Nebraska to decide if they want to have slavery or not within their own borders.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    Was a violent series of political confrontations involving anti-slavery, Free-staters, and Border-ruffin, in Kansas.

  • Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case

    Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case
    Dred Scott was a slave in the US who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and his wife’s along with their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857.

  • John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry

    John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
    It was done by a white abalitionist to start an armed slave revolt.