1790's-1850's

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    The South and Slavery

  • Bill of Rights Ratified

    U.S. ratified the Bill of Rights.
  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Allowed Slave owners to get their run away slaves and bring them back to their plantation.
  • Cotton Gin

    In 1794, U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
  • Teneessee

    Teneesse was admitted to the union on June 1, 1796.
  • John Adam

    John Adams is the second president to take office. He only serve one term.
  • George Washington

    Washington died in Dec 14, 1799
  • Gabriel's Reabellion

    Slave revolt that failed when Gabriel Prosser, a slave preacher and Blacksmith, organized a thousand slaves for an attack on Richmond, Virginia.
  • Ohio

    Ohio was admitted to the Union.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    By a treaty signed on Apr. 30, 1803, the United States purchased from France the Louisiana Territory, more than 2 million sq km (800,000 sq mi) of land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
  • Embargo Act

    IT was passed by congress in 1807 prohibiting American ships from leaving for any foriegn port.
  • Internal Slalve Trade

    Slaves were traded in the U.S. even though some slaves were smuggled into the U.S.
  • James Madison

    James Madison is the Fourth president of the U.S. he served two terms in office.
  • Battle of New Orleans

    The American and the British fougtht and the American's Won!!!!
  • Reverend Allen

    Reverend Allen Joined with African American ministers from other cities to form the African Methodist Episcopal (AME).
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    "Alabama Fever"

    Is Southern Expansion carried cotton planting over the Mississippi River into Louisiana and deep into Texas.
  • Missouri Compromise

    March 3, 1820, after Maine petitioned Congress for statehood. Both states were admitted, a free Maine and a slave Missouri.
  • Missouri

    Missouri is admitted to the Union.
  • Denmark Vesey's Conspiracy

    Is the most carefully devised slave revolt in which rebelsplanned to seize control of Charleston in 1822 and escape to freedom in Haiti, a free black republic, but they were betrayed by other slaves, and seventy-five conspirators were executed.
  • Africans Loses their Boats

    South Carolina legislature passed a bill required that all black seamen be seized and jailed while their ships were in Charleston harbor.
  • Monroe Doctorine

    President James Monroe’s 1823 annual message to Congress contained the Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
  • Nat Turner's Revolt

    Uprising of slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, in the summer of 1831 led by Nat Turner that resulted in the death of fifty-five white people.
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    "Flush Times"

    Was the second wave of western expansion.
  • The Alamo

    A war that was fought by Texns and Mexicans, the Texans losses the battle going up against 1600 soldiers and they have 189 troops.
  • "Gag Rule"

    This was passed by congress to prevent discussion of antislavery petitions.
  • Trial of Tears

    The Five Civilized Tribes were removed from their home land to reservation camps known as present day Oklahoma.:(
  • Harriet Tubman

    She helped free slaves, later on she gotten permission to marry John Tubman.
  • California

    California Becomes The 31st state of the United States of America, Following the defeat of Mexico in the Mexican-American War.