Important Events in History in America During the 1800s

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    Important Events in History in America During the 1800s

  • United States Bans Slave Trade with Other Outside of America

    Importing African slaves is outlawed, but smuggling continues. This makes it diffucult for southerners to get more slaves to increase there profits in the south.

  • The Missouri Compromise

    This was an agreement passed to make all states below the 36 parallel a slave state and anything above a free state. Missouri will be made into a slave state and Maine a free state.

  • David Walker

    David Walker writes the first out of four articals, Walker Appeal.

  • Garrison Publishes the Liberator

    Newspaper that distributed and mass produced abolitionist ideas. Called for the immediate and complete freedom of all slaves.

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    Rebellion in Southampton, Virginia to retaliate against those supporting slavery. Killed over 65 people.

  • Frederick Douglass Establishes the North Star

    The North star was the most influential black newspaper of its time. It was used to show how slavery was wrong.

  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

    Made helping escaped slaves a crime. Passed because of abolitionists and the Underground Railroad.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    This book was written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe was an abolitionist who wrote this book to show the evils of slavery. This book, which was a best seller at the time, had a huge impact on the way that northerners viewed slavery.

  • The Dred Scott Decision

    The United States Supreme Court decides, seven to two, that Blacks can never be citizens and Congress has no authority to outlaw slavery in any territory. This angers abolitionist and blacks which lead to the outbreak of the Civil War.

  • The Crittenden Compromise

    This was last attempt at preserving the Missouri Compromise's idea of the 36/30 line. Slavery would be forbidden above it and protected below it. This compromise failed to attract support, this means that the days when Northerners and Southerners were willing to compromise were over.