History of American Slavery

  • End of Revolutionary War

  • Passage of Northwest Ordinance of 1787

  • Signing of the Constitution

  • Invention of Cotton Gin

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Start of War of 1812

  • Passage of Tariff of 1816

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Indian Removal Act

  • Garrison begins The Liberator

  • Start of the Trail of Tears

  • Nat Turner Rebellion

  • Declaration of Rexas Independence

  • Douglas publishes Autobiography

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • Gold Discovered in California

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  • Gadsden Purchase

  • Start of Bleeding Kansas

  • Birth of Republican Party

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Attack on Charles Sumner

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • Delaney publishes Blake

  • John Brown’s Raid

  • Lincoln Elected President

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

  • Passage of 13th Amendment

  • Passage of 14th Amendment