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First slave Ship Arrival in North American English Colonies
Who: Dutch and English
Where: Jamestown -
Underground Railroad
Where: Southern and Northern United States and Canada.
Who: Slaves and abolitionists; Harriet Tubman -
Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt
Who: Gabriel Prosser
Where: Richmond, Virginia -
Slave Trade Ban of 1803
Who: Denmark
Where: Denmark and its West Indies colonies -
Invention of the Cotton Gin
Who: Eli Whitney
Where: The Southern United States -
Missouri Compromise
Who: Congress passes it. North (Free) States. South (Slave) States.
Where: 36°30. Mid United States. -
Founding of Liberia
Where: Liberia, Africa
Who: Founded by former Untied States slaves. -
Abolition Movement
Where: Northern United States
Who: Quakers, Northern Whigs, Evangelicals, etc. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Where: Southampton County, Virginia.
Who: Nat Turner and rebelling slaves. -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Who: Frederick Douglass
Where: The United States -
Compromise of 1850
Who: Henry Clay, Zachary Taylor, Stephen A. Douglass, John C. Calhoun.
Where: Washington D.C., California, the Northern and Southern United States, New Mexico, Utah, and Texas -
Fugitive Slave Act
Who: The South, Henry Clay, and Zachary Taylor.
Where: The Southern and Northern United States. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Where: The Southern and Northern United States.
Who: Slaves, slave holders, and abolitionists; Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
"Bleeding Kansas"
Where: Kansas.
Who: Anti and pro slavery activists and extremist; Kentuckians. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who: Senator Stephen A. Douglass.
Where: Kansas and Nebraska. -
Brooks Attacks Sumner
Where: The U.S. Senate.
Who: Senator Charles Sumner and Senator Preston Brooks. -
Dred Scott Case
Who: Dred Scott.
Where: The Supreme Court, the Northern United States. -
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
Who: Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglass
Where: Illinois -
Raid on Harper's Ferry
Who: John Brown and his family; General Robert E. Lee.
Where: Harper's Ferry Virginia. -
Election of 1860
Who: Republican: Abraham Lincoln, Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell
Where: The United States -
Emancipation Proclamation
Who: All slaves (except those in Union border/slave states).
Where: In all Union and Confederate states (except the Union border/slave states). -
Thirteenth Amendment
Who: Secretary of State William H. Seward, Andrew Johnson; slaves.
Where: The United States. -
Fourteenth Amendment
Who: Blacks and Jacob M. Howard.
Where: The United States. -
Fifteenth Amendment
Who: Black men
Where: The United States -
Compromise of 1877
Who: Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes
Where: The Southern United States -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Who: Rosa Parks and James F. Blake.
Where: Montgomery, Alabama. -
Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream!" speech
Who: Martin Luther King Jr. Blacks and Civil Rights Activists.
Where: Washington D.C. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
Where: Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee.
Who: Martin Luther King Jr. and James Earl Ray
