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John Rolfe (Tabacco Crop)
In 1619 John Rolfe brought to Virginia the first Cash Crop, it required intensive work which required the US the need to obtain slaves- which eventually led to the civil war by fighting on the freedom or continued enslavement of slaves. -
Arrival of Dutch Slave Ship
Dutch Slave ship "The White Lion" arrived to Jamestown with around 20 slaves that had been taken from the Spanish by the Dutch in a battle at sea. The ship was originally set for the Caribbean/ Barbados. The Dutch traded slaves for food and ship repairs, both of which they were desperately in need of. These were the first slaves sold in the English Colonies, slaves replaced indentured servants as a labor source in the South. Disagreements over slavery led to the civil war. -
Nathaniel Bacons Rebellions
Nathaniel Bacon did not agree with Sir William Berkley's refusal to allow indentured servants and many other settlers access to more land West. Berkley refused because it was land allotted to Native Americans through treaties. Bacon led two rebellions on Jamestown and burned down the city. Fearing the anger of indentured servants southerners turned to slavery as their preferred labor source disagreements over slavery led to the civil war. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner was a slave who incited an uprising that spread through several near by plantations in Southern Virginia. Although it was not the only uprising git was on of the bloodiest and gruesome uprising in America. The government responded by revoking almost all of the rights of slaves and even free blacks, this included education. This led to the civil war by the disagreement on if this law was constitutional or not, causing a dispute between the North and South. -
End of Mexican American War
After the American Mexican War, America had gained land Westward. The action after gaining the land would be to then make the land states. This led to the civil war by the decision on the states borders and if they would be slave states or free states. the disagreement on slavery led to the civil war. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was a law passed stating that any run away slave was to be returned back to slavery. This caused problems and controversy between the North and South in the fact that many "returned slaves" were free men, women , and children. This act drew attention to the inhumanity and cruelty of slavery. This led to the civil war by leading into the Battle of Fort Sumter, the battle that was basically the beginning of the civil war. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Uncles Toms Cabin, a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stow an abolitionist, was about the lives of slaves. The novel was an antislavery novel that set a view for those who had not experienced slavery first hand. This led to the civil war by giving people who had not seen the effects of slavery themselves an idea of what happens and this made some people very angry. -
Kansa Nebraska Act
The Kansas- Nebraska Act let the states of Kansas and Nebraska decide on if slavery were to be allowed into their borders. This was a way to try and repeal the Compromise of 1820 stating that slavery were to be outlawed in the North. This led to the civil war by the antislavery and proslavery settlers fighting over territory to gain the political power that they saw necessary for slave influences. -
Bleeding Kansas
The actions of Bleeding Kansas involved antislavery and proslavery settlers to fight over what the state of Kansas would be. Settlers murdering one another led to the civil war by starting a violent separation of states, unions, politics and the overall disagreement on slavery. -
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
Originally Lincoln was not included in the Southern Ballot because the South did not intend on ellecting an antislavery republican into presidency. After Lincoln was announced president South Carolina succeed from the Union along with six other states. This led to the civil war by breaking up the union and there being two separate countries sharing laws within a continent, laws that one country did not agree with.
