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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
slavery was decreasing exponetially because of the cost of farming and low profit, but with the cotton gin making production faster slavery increased quickly. -
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The South and the Slavery Controversy
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slave rebellions
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slave rebelion in Gabriel in Richmond, VA
Informers told of plot Leaders were hanged -
Louisiana purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. The Louisiana Purchase was by far the largest territorial gain in U.S. history, stretching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The purchase doubled the size of the United States. Before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Louisiana had been under control of the Spanish since 1763. -
Torture Mask, woodcut, 1807
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Congress outlaws slave trade
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smuggling of slaves began punishable by death
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American Colonization Society formed
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Missouri Compromise
formed the 38th parallel of free and slave states -
Vesey slave rebellion in Charleston
30 were hung all african american slaves -
Republic of Liberia established in Africa
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Tariff of 1828
The major goal of the tariff was to protect industries in the northern United States which were being driven out of business by low-priced imported goods by putting a tax on them. The South, however, was harmed directly by having to pay higher prices on goods the region did not produce, and indirectly because reducing the exportation of British goods to the US made it difficult for the British to pay for the cotton they imported from the South. -
Walker publishes Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
a book based on the good the colored people deserve -
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1829-1845: Literary works of Antislavery supporters
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Nat Turner slave rebellion in Virginia
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Garrison begins publishing The Liberator
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Virginia legislature debates slavery and emancipation
deboate over the importance of slavery -
Nullification crisis of 1832
This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. It further implanted haunting fears in white southern minds,conjuring up nightmares of black incendiaries andabolitionist devils. -
British abolish slavery in the West Indies
british has not had use of slaves for a while so aboloshes slavery easily -
American Anti-Slavery Society founded
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The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave by Henry Byam Martin
painting of slave trade auctions -
Abolitionist students expelled from Lane Theological Seminary
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Abolitionist are Persecuted
many people who were for abolition and acted on it were punished by trials -
organized an 18 day debate on slavery at Lane Theological Seminary
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U.S. Post Office orders destruction of abolitionist mail
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“Broadcloth Mob” attacks Garrison
garrison the writer of the liberator gets attacked for influencing abolition -
House of Representatives passes “Gag Resolution”
Legislation passed by the House of Representatives called for all appeals concerning slavery to be tabled without debate. -
Mob kills abolitionist Lovejoy in Alton, Illinois
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Ye Southern Planter 1838
a painting to show the luxaries of a plantation owner -
fedric douglas Escaped from slavery in 1838
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Weld publishes American Slavery As It Is
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Amistad
The Amistad, also known as United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad,was a United States Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of Africans on board the Spanish schooner La Amistad in 1839.The schooner was traveling along the coast of Cuba on its way to a port for re-sale of the slaves. The African captives, who had been kidnapped in Sierra Leone and illegally sold into slavery and shipped to Cuba, escaped their shackles and took over the ship. -
Liberty party organized
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Cotton counted for half the value of all American exports after 1840
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Douglass publishes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
he wrote a auto biograph about his slave life -
Virginia Planter's Family by August Köllner, 1845
a painting was published to show what was expected from the wife of a plantation owner to be a part servant, but harsh with the slaves. -
Annexation of Texas
The United States of America annexed the Republic of Texas and admitted it to the Union as the 28th state. -
Wilmot Proviso
Would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession. -
Free Soil Party organized
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More than ½ slave owning families in the south owned less than 4 slaves with a major contrast of 2% owning more than 50 slaves
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1,733 families owned more than 100 slaves each
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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
"Uncle Toms Cabin"
An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. -
Douglass burns the constitution
publicly burned a copy of the Constitution as “a covenant with death and hell”. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson, New Englander declares, “ I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get ride of freedom.”
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"The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It"
Abook written by Hinton Rowan Helper of North Carolina. the book was a strong attack on slavery as inefficient and a barrier to the economic advancement of whites -
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
the supreme court decided that slaves were property no citezens so they had no protest rights -
Deep South states owned about ½ of all slaves
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Abraham Lincoln Elected
lincoln became the 19th presedent and almost immediatly the south seceded
