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Slaves Arrive
Africans begin being shipped to North America as slaves on plantations. -
3/5 a person
The writers of the United States Constitution decide that slaves will only count as 3/5 of a person when deciding how many representatives represent each state. -
Abrahm Lincoln
Lincoln stated that slavery should not be allowed to expand into any more territories. but yet owned slaves. -
Missouri Comprise
The Missouri Compromise allows the people in each state to vote on whether slavery should be legal or illegal in that state. -
Harriot Tubman
ran away in 1849 and returned to slave country numerous times to rescue family members and non relatives from the plantations. -
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth escapes from slavery and begins for women right and african rights. -
Nat Turner
Nat Turner hasa vision and hears unreal voices telling him to fight against slavery by killing slave owners. -
comprise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 ends the slave trade to the United States, but allows slavery to continue as is. -
Uncle tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
one of the most memorable works to stir anti-slavery sentiments. -
kansas Newbraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act caused fighting in Kansas & Nebraska over whether those new states should allow slavery or not. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott takes his case to win his freedom to the Supreme Court, and the court decided that slaves who escape to free states must be returned to their rightful masters. -
Civil War
11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and created the Confederate States of America 1861 -
13th Amendment
the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.". (Quote 13 amendment) -
Robert E. Lee
was a military officer who is best remebered for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. -
Fredrick Douglass
At the age of six, his grandmother took him to the plantation and left him there.
