Unit 7 TimeLine

By Johan Espinal

  • Whitney's cotton gin transforms southern economy

  • Gabriel slave rebellion in Virginia

  • Britain abolishes slave trade

  • Congress outlaws slave trade

  • American Colonization Society formed

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Vasey slave rebellion in Charleston

  • Appel to the Colored Citizens of the world published

    Writer Walker

  • Nat Turner slave rebellion in Virginia

  • Garrison begins publishing The Liberator

  • Period: to

    Virginia legislature debates slavery and emancipation

  • American Anti-Slavery Society founded

  • U.S. Post office orders destruction of abolishionist mail

  • House of representatives passes "Gag Resolution"

  • Weld publishes American Slavery as It is

  • Antislavery Liberity party organized

  • Tyler assumes presidency

  • Harrison dies after four weeks in office

  • Douglass publishes narritive of the Life of Fredrick Douglass

  • U.S. annexes Texas

  • Period: to

    Mexican War

  • Free Soil party organized

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Taylor becomes president

  • California Gold Rush

  • Pierce becomes president

  • Republican party organized