Important Events : The Road to the Civil War .

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    Road to the Civil War.

  • John Locke

    John Locke

    John Locke's believed in natural rights and laws. Natural rights are rights people are born with and you cannot take them away.
  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Bacon's Rebellion

    Gathered farmers and indentured servants, Changed African status.
  • New York Slave Rebellion

    New York Slave Rebellion

    23 Africans, New York City
    Killed 9 whites and injured 6 more
    70 arrested, 27 put on trial and 21 convicted executed.
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

    Promised emancipation effects on population
    - Freed men from the war : Chesapeake
    - Many also escape
    - Free black populations in Maryland and Delaware
    - Slave numbers began to decline
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Is arguably one of the most influential in the history of the United States
  • Northwest Ordinance

    Northwest Ordinance

    was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, passed July 13, 1787.
  • Three Fifths Compromise

    Three Fifths Compromise

    Slaves only had 3/5 of a vote.
  • Constitution Passed

    Constitution Passed

    Constitution
    • Passed after American war evolutionary war revolutionary war
    • 2nd constitution
  • Haitian Slave Rebellion

    Haitian Slave Rebellion

    Originally ruled by French
    Three Classes :
    - Whites
    - Free blacks
    - Slaves
    High death rate, more New Africans
    10 days, slaves captured the North
    Punishment, power Castration or burning
    Pillaged, raped, tortured and mutilated white owners.
    Within weeks 100,000 plus slaves evolution
    Killed 4,000 whites & destroyed sugar planation
    Gained freedom by 1804
    Ethnic Cleansing : Killed every white person on island
    Took place throughout : the country
    Between February and April 1804 3,000 - 5,000 whit
  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act

    was passed by the United States Congress on September 18,1850
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin

    is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job that otherwise must be performed painstakingly by hand.
  • Slave Trade Act

    Slave Trade Act

    Slave Trade Act of 1794 (America)
    · Could not import - slaves after 1808
    · 2,000 dollars
    · Owning slaves was legal.
    · Not always enforced
    · Same as America
  • Gabriel Conspiracy

    Gabriel Conspiracy

    Planned revolt in summer
    Postponed due to rain
    Two slaves told their owner : no reward
    Escaped to Norfolk, captured.
  • Lousiana Purchase

    Lousiana Purchase

    of land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
  • Slavery Officially Outlawed

    Slavery Officially Outlawed

    This was when they tried to out rule slavery.
  • Lousiana Slave Rebellion

    Lousiana Slave Rebellion

    New Orleans , Haitian refugees
    Deslondes:
    - Leads 180 men and women
    700 white troops (slave owners, army, etc.)
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress,

  • Nat Turner Slave Rebellion

    Killed 55 white people
    Hanged and Skinned
    Killed over 200 blacks