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The Introduction of Slavery in America
After powerful hurricane at the Atlantic in 1619 a dutch slave ship inadvertently lands in Virginia. This incident was the first arrival of slaves in Colonial America. -
The Missouri Compromise
Rising tension arose for the Missouri Territory to either become a slave star or a free state. A compromise that was submitted by Henry Clay. The compromise was implemented by the U.S. Congress to divided slave states and free states by the "36,30" parallel. With the boundary both proslavery and anti-slavery states will have the same number of states on each side. -
The Underground Railroad
A large network of safe houses for slaves to hide and rest in the south. Conducted by abolitionist that guided slaves to freedom in the northern free states and eventually Canada. Most notibly a famous abolitionist of the Underground Railroad by the Name of Hariet Tubman freed slaves for ten years. She treked into the deep south nineteen time freeing 300 slaves. Tubman told Fredrick Douglas that she "never lost a single passenger." From 1820 to 1850 an estimated 100,000 slaves were freed. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Southhampton, Virginia of August 1831. The rebel slaves killed an estimate of 55 to 65 people. The largest number of civilian fatalities during a slave revolt in the South. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
An abolitionist novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published. It explained the horrors of slavery in great detail. Even playwrights adapted to this novel. Many southerners were outraged by a "ficticious novel." -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 with popular sovereignty slowing the people of each territory to decide whether their territory should become a slave state or free state. -
Bleeding Kansas
A period of violence admitting Kansas to either be a slave or free state wither border clashes from 1854 to 1861. Large massacres of both pro-slavery and anti-slavery civilians. The infamous John Brown killed many pro-slavery people with his sons and followers. Brown diced up his victims to spread fear of Abolitionism. -
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown and his followersseized the US arsenal in Harpers Ferry. Citizens and local militias attacked Harpers Ferry then Lee's army besieged the arsenal. John Brown and six of his followers surrendered and where convicted. All where hanged. Southerners stop at Harpers Ferry raid was supported by the Republican Party. -
Abraham Lincoln elected as President
Lincoln wins the 1860 election in the United States. Southerners automatically assume that Lincoln wants to abolish slavery completely. On December 20th 1860 North Carolina is the first state to secede from the United States. Lincoln has no ambitions to get rid of slavery and is not an abolitionist. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter
South Carolina demanded that the U.S. Army abandon their facilities in Charleston Harbor. Eighty five Union troops defended Fort Sumter against five hundred Confederate soldiers. With a staggering Union loss declarations were made and civil war was upon the United States of America.
