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Slavery in America
Slavery in Amerca began when the first African slaves were broght to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. This aided the plantation of tobacco. -
Slave Trade Abolished
The US Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port ot place within the jurisdiction of the United States...from any foreign kingdom, place, or country." Great Britain also banned the African slave trade in 1807. -
Missouri Compromise
A bill that temprarily resolved the first serious political clash between slavery and antislavery interests in U.S. history. Opponents to the bill aso questioned the congressional precedent of prohibiting the expanstion of slavery into a territory where slave status was favored. -
Wilmot Proviso
Was an amendment to Democratic President James K. Pol's appropriation bill for the funding of newly acquired territories. It was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War. -
Compromise of 1850
Divisions over slavery in territory gained in the Mexican-American.War were resolved in the Compromise of 1850. -
Fugitive Slave Acts
-1793
-Decreed that slave owners and their "agents" had the right to search for escaped slaves on the edge of free states.
-1850
-Even more impassioned criticism and resistance than the earlier measure. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Publish Date
Harriet Beecher Stowe created this anti-slavery novel. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Baraham Lincolm met Stoe in 1862, he reportedly said, "So this is the little lady who made this big war." -
Bleeding Kansas
It is a term used to describe the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. Proslavery and free-state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Mandated "popular sovereignity." Missouri Compromise's us of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case
The supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. They also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the US territories. -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. This was an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.
