Important Events:r The Road to the Civil Wa

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  • John Locke

    John Locke
    he was against slavery and believes in natural laws.
  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Bacon's Rebellion
    An uprising in the Virginia colony in North America led by Nathienal Bacon.
  • New York Slave Rebellion

    New York Slave Rebellion
    An uprising in New York City, when 23 enslaved Africans who killed nine whites and injured another six.
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    American Revolution

    The war between Britain and the American colonies.
  • Lift Bans

    Lift Bans
    George Washington Lifts ban on African Americans in the continental Army
  • Declaration of Indepence

    Declaration of Indepence
    A statement adopted by the Continental Congress.
  • Three Fifths Compromise

    Three Fifths Compromise
    Slaves were 3/5 a person, because the whites did not want them to be equal.
  • Northwest Ordinance

    Northwest Ordinance
    Territory that was free land and African Americans could live there.
  • Consitution Passed

    Consitution Passed
    A document of laws.
  • Haitian Slave Revolution Starts

    Haitian Slave Revolution Starts
    The death of 350,000 Haitians and 50,000 European troops.
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney
    The cotton gin is invented.
  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    If a slave get away to the north, their master can go find them and take them back south.
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    Slave Trade Act

    The transporting of Human beings, that were Africans.
  • Gabriel's Conspiracy

    Gabriel's Conspiracy
    The plan of the big Slave Rebellion.
  • Loisianna Purchase

    Loisianna Purchase
    The big land purchase from the French.
  • Haitian Slave Ends

    Haitian Slave Ends
    Child Hood Slavery
  • Slavery Officially Outlawed

    Slavery Officially Outlawed
    Slavery was over and slaves would now be free and it was illegal for people to have slaves or import them
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    the agreement between the abolitionist and pro slavery agents.
  • Nat Turner

    Nat Turner
    5th Slave Rebellion
  • La Amistad

    La Amistad
    19th-century two-masted schooner built in Spain and owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba.