Unit 6 Timeline

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  • Whitney's cotton gin transforms southern economy.

  • Gabriel slave rebellion in Virginia.

  • Congress outlaws slave trade.

  • American Colonization Society formed.

  • Missouri Compromise.

  • Vesey slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina; Republic of Liberia established in Africa.

  • Walker publishes "Appeals to the Colored Citizens of the World".

  • Nat Turner slave rebellion in Virginia; Garrison begins publishing "The Liberator."

  • Virginia legislatures debates slavery and emancipation.

  • British abolish slavery in West Indies; American Anti-Slavery Society founded.

  • Abolitionist students expelled from Lane Theological Seminary

  • U.S. Post Office orders destruction of abolitionist mail; "Broadcloth Mob" attacks Garrison.

  • House of Representatives passes "Gag Resolution."

  • Mob kills abolitionist Lovejoy in Alton, Illinois

  • Canadian rebellion and Caroline incident.

  • Weld publishes "American Slavery as It Is."

  • Antislavery Liberty party organized.

  • Harrison dies after four weeks in office; Tyler assumes presidency.

  • Aroostook War over Maine boundary; Webster-Ashburton treaty.

  • Polk defeates Clay in "Manifest Destiny" election.

  • Caleb Cushing signs Treaty of Wanghia with China.

  • Douglass publishes "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"

  • United States annexes Texas.

  • Walker Tariff; Independent treasury restored; United States settles Oregon dispute with Britain.

  • United States and Mexico clash over Texas boundary; Kearny takes Santa Fe; Fremont conquers California; Wilmot Proviso passes HOuse of Representatives.

  • Battle of Buena Vista; Scott takes Mexico City.

  • Free Soil party organized.

  • Mexican War.

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War.

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; Taylor defeats Cass and Van Buren for Presidency.

  • California Gold Rush.

  • California Gold Rush

  • Filmore assumes presidency after Taylor's death; Compromise of 1850, including Fugitive Slave Law; Clayton-Bulwer with Britain

  • Filmore assumes presidency after Taylor's death; Compromise of 1850, including Fugitive Slave Law; Clayton-Bulwer Treaty with Britain.

  • Pierce defeats Scott for Presidency.

  • Gadsden Purchase from Mexico.

  • Commodore Perry opens Japan; Ostend Manifesto proposes seizure of Cuba; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Republican Party Organized.

  • William Walker becomes President of Nicaragua and Legalizes slavery.