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Eli Whitney's invention of the Cotton Gin increases the need for slave labor.
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Congress bans importation of slaves from Africa.
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States choose to have slavery or not.
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Soujourner Truth escapes from slavery and begins fighting for desegregationl of buses in Washington DC and for womens rights.
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Harriet Tubman escapes slavery and becomes one of the most important members of the underground railroad.
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The fugitive slave law is in effect. Asking for the return of slaves that escape and cross state lines.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Toms Cabin" in response to the Fugitive slave act.
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Established teritories in Kansas and Nebraska. Legislaction also repells the Missouri Compromise.
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The supreme court ruled on the Dred Scott case, a slave who tried to sue for his freedom because his "master" took him to a free state, stating that slaves could not be U.S citizens.
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John Brown attacks the military arsenal at Harper's Ferry to start a slave revolt and end slavery.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the US.
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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation declaring all slaves in the Confederate states shall be free.
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The Confederacy is founded and the south secedes starting the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln announced "Slaves within any State, or designated part of a State in rebellion shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
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The Civil War ends. Lincoln is assassinated, and the Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery all over the United States.
