Cival war

By Marcus Powell

  • Colonial period

    1. A Dutch ship brings about twenty black Africans to the Colony of Virginia as indentured servants. (1619)
    2. About 2,000 of the 40,000 inhabitants of colonial Virginia are imported slaves. (1671)
    3. Non-slaveholding farmers in Virginia think slave labor threatens their livelihoods. (1719)

  • American Revolution and Confederation period

    1. The United States Declaration of Independence declares "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights. (1776)
    2. Massachusetts bans slavery in its constitution. (1780)
    3. July 13: The Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation passes the Northwest Ordinance to govern territory north of the Ohio River and west of Pennsylvania.

  • Early period under the Constitution

    1. August 7: Congress re-adopts the Northwest Ordinance under the Constitution.
    2. Vermont admitted as a free state
    3. The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France.

  • War of 1812

    1. Louisiana is admitted as a slave state
    2. Mississippi, a slave state, is admitted the union
    3. U.S. slave population in the 1820 United States Census: 1,538,000

  • The Compromise Tariff of 1833

    1. Nullification crisis by lowering some rates.
    2. The abolitionist American Anti-Slavery Society is founded in Philadelphia.
    3. Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child of Massachusetts publishes An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans.

  • Compromise of 1850 through 1860 election

    1. April 17: U.S. Senator Henry S. Foote of Mississippi pulls a pistol on an anti-slavery Senator on the floor of the U.S. Senate
    2. Henry Clay proposes the Compromise of 1850 to handle California's petition for admission to the union as a free state and Texas's demand for land in New Mexico.
    3. Utah is organized as a territory and adopts a slave code.

  • Knights of the Golden Circle,

    1. Former Mississippi Governor John A. Quitman begins to raise money and volunteers to invade Cuba
    2. he Know-Nothing Party or American Party, which includes many nativist former Whigs
    3. George Fitzhugh's pro-slavery Sociology for the South is published

  • 1860 election

    1. Abraham Lincoln wins the 1860 presidential election
    2. Charleston, South Carolina authorities arrest a Federal officer
    3. The Provisional Confederate Congress chosen by the Montgomery convention approves a Peace Commission to the United States

  • Aftermath 1861

    1. Kentucky and North Carolina immediately refuse to provide troops in response to Lincoln's call
    2. Federal troops are only partially successful in destroying the armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia,
    3. President Lincoln declares a blockade of the Confederate States

  • Licolns Blockade

    1. Federal forces abandon and attempt to destroy the Gosport Navy Yard
    2. The 7th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment arrives in Washington, D.C.
    3. Governor Beriah Magoffin of Kentucky declares Kentucky to be neutral and forbids both movement of troops