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Slave Trade Abolished
Medallion created as part of anti-slavery campaign by Josian wegwood, 1787 -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromuse was an effort by congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in whcih slaery woul dbe premitted. -
Wlmot Proviso
Congressman David Wilmot first introduced the proviso in the United States House of Representatives on August 8, 1846, as a rider on a $2,000,000 appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American war. -
Compromise Of 1850
Senator henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. -
Fugative slave act
The Fugutive Slave law or Furgitive Slave Act was passedby the United State Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave holding interssts and Northern Free-slilers. -
Unlce tom's Cabin Published.
Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slaverys novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
kansas-nebrasa Act
The kansas-Nebraksa cat was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraksa to decide form themselves wherher or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Dred scott V. Sanford Supreme Court Case
The case before he court was that of Dred Scott V. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the supreme court in hopes of being granted his freedom. -
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown's rapid on Harpers Ferry was an effrt by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slae revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States aresenal at Haprers Ferry, Virginia. -
Slaves arrive in america
Slavery in America began when the first african slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding kasas, bloody kansas or the border war was a series of bilent political confrontatins in the United States involving anti-slavery.
