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The Arrival of Slavery
The Africans were brought to Jamestown, Virginia, and black slaves worked on the tobacco. Slavery started growing everywhere in the United States, especially in South. The owners could have done anything they wanted to do to the slaves, even kill them. -
Slave Trade Abolished
The Congress starts to abolish, or end Slavery in 1807. The US wanted to end slavery in any kingdom, place, or country, but Cuba and Brazil continued to do this. -
Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay said that Missorui would become a slave state and Maine would become a free state. Henry Clay was the one that settled the Missouri Compromise. -
Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso was a document to ban slavery in the land that the Mexican War was happening. James K. Polk put down $2 million to discuss about it. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a division over slavery in territory that was gained in the Mexican-American War. The Compromise made California a free state, and making the other territories a slave state. -
Fugitive Slave Acts
This act allowed capturing of runaway slaves that was in the territory in United States. This act was one of the most discussed laws in the 1800s, and the Northern States tried to find away around this act. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
Author Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin, which is about anti-slavery. It helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they want to keep slavery or not. This act lead many conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was when there was a violence during the settling of Kansas territory. John Brown led anti-slavery in Kansas on Harpers Ferry. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case
The Supreme Court said that African Americans were not allowed to be an American citizens. The Congress had a tough time banning slavery in the United States. -
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown made a small group and they started raiding against a federal armory. The group wanted to destroy slavery and to abolish it.
