Slavery Timeline

By tlane20
  • Jun 21, 1500

    Slaves Come to America

    Slaves Come to America
    Slaves from Africa were brought from Africa to the Americas around the 1500s. It is said that 10 million slaves were brought to the Americas between the 1500s and the 1800s. They were brought because of the tobacco and rice plantations.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    This slave act aloud the local government to captured slaves. They were aloud to pentalist those who helped the escaped slaves.

  • The End of the Slave Trade

    The End of the Slave Trade
    The Slave Trade Act prohibited slave trade. This was the Britain's idea but America soon followed.

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    This was a line down the middle of the coutry that said any state below the line was a slave state and any state above the line was a free state. This helped solve the balance confliced at the time. This would latter be broken by the bleeding of kansas.

  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso
    The Wilmot Proviso was a document created by David Wilmot, a northern. He created to stop the south from having too many slave states.

  • Compromise

    Compromise
    The compromise was to make California a free state. This compromise helped the government deal with the slave deal for years.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    Was the second of to Fugitive Slave Acts. Aloud slave owners to be harsher on the punisment on runaway slaves.

  • Uncle Tom's Cobin

    Uncle Tom's Cobin
    Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book is what layed the ground work for the Civil War.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Aloud for the people of the state to decide if the state should be a free or slave state. This was proposed by Stephen A. Douglas.

  • Dred Scott Vs. Sandford Supreme Court Case

    Dred Scott Vs. Sandford Supreme Court Case
    Dred Scott was bought by a guy who was in the navy. While his owner was away Dred Scott took jobs to support him and his wife. When his owner died Dred tried to buy their freedom from his wife. When she rufused the case was taken to many courts and finally to the Supreme Court.

  • John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
    John Brown was a white abolished who was trying to start a slave revolt.He tried to take over a US arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    When people who supported slaves and those who didn't flooded into Kansas to vote on their prefrence. This act went against the Missouri Compromise.