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1820
1820 The results of the 1820 census show a total population of 10,037,323 including 1,529,012 slaves or 15% of the population. Slaves are virtually non-existent in northern states and as high as 51% in South Carolina and 45% in Louisiana. March - The Missouri Compromise is negotiated allowing Maine to be admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in -
1821
This act will maintain a balance between free and slave states. The compromise establishes the 36 degree, 30' parallel of latitude as a dividing line between free and slave areas of the territories. -
1827
The state of New York abolishes slavery. -
1836
Arkansas becomes the twenty fifth state and enters the Union as a slave state. -
1838
Robert Purvis formally organized the Underground Railroad. -
1845
Former slave, Frederick Douglass, publishes his autobiography - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. March - Florida becomes the twenty seventh state and enters the Union as a slave state in 1845. December - Texas becomes the twenty eighth state and enters the Union as a slave state in 1845. -
1849
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland. She reportedly returned to the South 19 times and brought out more than 300 slaves. -
1856
Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner delivers a speech attacking slavery supporters in the Senate. He singles out Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina in his speech. Two days later, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks, Butler's nephew, attacks Sumner on the Senate floor and beats him with a cane. The House did not expel or censure Brooks for the attack, Sumner took three years to recover. -
1858
Minnesota becomes the thirty-second state and enters the Union as a free state in 1858 giving the North more power. -
1859
Oregon becomes the thirty-third state and enters the Union as a free state in 1859 giving the north even more power after Minnesota. October - John Brown attacks Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Robert E. Lee, then a Federal Army regular leads the troops and captures Brown. John Brown and two of the black members of his band were hanged. -
Civil War
The Civil War starts between the North and South of America -
My Reaction
The Civil War was important to the development of the United States, and I am glad that the North won because it abolished slavery. -
Works Cited
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