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John Locke
He believed that humans were born with certain rights.It was important for the French Revolution which made them be free. -
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Important Events: The Road to the Civil War
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Bacon's Rebeliion
Gathered farmers and indentured servants.Caused change in African status. -
New York Slave Rebellion
Enslaved Africans who killed nine whites and injured another six.
They were kept under abusive and harsh conditions, and natural their treatment . -
American Revolution
Thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America.Through the Second Continental Congress, the Americans managed the armed conflict against the British known as the American Revolutionary War. -
eorge Washington lifts ban on the americans in the continental Army
At frist he didnt want them to fight because the slaves would try to run away from slavery. At the sametime it was a good thing because slaves were escaping to the road of freedom. -
Declarartion of Independence
The French followed the Americans lead and did their own thing. The Declaration of Independence influenced other countries to consider being independent. -
Three Fifths Compromise
between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia convention of 1787.They didn't count slaves as a whole they counted them as three fifths. -
Northwest Ordicance
was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, passed July 13, 1787.The prohibition of slavery in the territory had the practical effect of establishing the Ohio River as the boundary between free and slave territory. -
Constitution Passed
is the supreme law of the United States of America.Later Amendments addressed liberties and freedoms, federal relationships, election procedures, terms of office, expanding the electorate, ending slavery, financing government, consumption of alcohol and Congressional pay. -
Hatian Slave Revolution
was the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a state. The revolution was one of the two successful attempts, along with the American Revolution, to achieve permanent independence from a European colonial power for an American state before the 19th century. -
Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry in the United States.More slaves had to be enslaved. -
Fugitive Slave Act
It declared that all runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters.It force the authorities in free states to return fugitive slaves to their masters because of this, this had made slave masters not want to even give up slavery because now to them,they would have to do work! -
Gabriel's conspiracy
Planned revolt,he was hanged along with with his 2 brothers and 22 other slaves. -
Lousiana Purchase
The Lousiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. The U.S. paid 50 million francs plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs for a total sum of 15 million dollars for territory. -
Hatian Slave Ends
The Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a state. The revolution was one of the two successful attempts, along with the American Revolution, to achieve permanent independence from a European colonial power for an American state before the 19th century. -
Slavery offically outlawed
In western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historical movement to end the African slave trade and set slaves free. convinced Spanish government to enact the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in 1542; Spain weakened these laws by 1545. -
Louisiana Slave Rebellion
The 1811 German Coast Uprising was a slave revolt that took place in parts of the Territory of Orleans on January 8–10, 1811. The revolt took place on the east coast of the Mississippi River in what are now St. John the Baptist and St. Charles parishes, Louisiana. -
Missouri Compromised
Was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana. -
Nat Turner
was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths and at least 100 black deaths. Southern states, state legislators passed new laws prohibiting education of slaves and free blacks, restricting rights of assembly and other civil rights for free blacks, and requiring white ministers to be present at black worship services. -
La Amistad
was a United States Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of Africans on board the Spanish schooner La Amistad in 1839. It was an unusual "freedom suit" which involved international issues and parties, as well as United States law.
