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John locke
John Locke was prominent Western philosopher. He said that man's natural rights are life, liberty, and property.According to Locke there are three natural rights:
Life: everyone is entitled to live once they are created.
Liberty: everyone is entitled to do anything they want to so long as it doesn't conflict with the first right.
Estate: everyone is entitled to own all they create or gain through gift or trade so long as it doesn't conflict with the first two rights. -
Bacon's Rebellion
was an uprising in 1675 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland would take place later that year. About a thousand Virginians (including former indentured servants, poor whites and poor blacks) rose up in arms against the rule of Virginia Governor William Berkeley. -
New York Slaves Rebellion
Slaves armed with guns and clubs burn homes in northern New York City, killing nine whites. Indentured servants betray the plot. Forty-three slaves were tried in the Court of Quarter Sessions and twnty-five were sentenced to death. Within months of the revolt, the General Assembly passed a law allowing slavemasters to punish slaves at their discretion and effectively made impossible the freeing of slaves. -
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American Revolution
The American Reovlution started in 1775 and ended in 1783. Africans were promised freedom. Africans who fought for England: 20,000 left with British, other went back to America, and others went back to Africa. The American colonist won. -
The Banned
George Washington lifts the ban on African Americans in the continental army. At first he did not want them fighting in the war, because he thought they would leave their masters -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire The Declaration would have its most prominent influence on the debate over slavery. The contradiction between the claim that "all men are created equal". -
Three Fifths Compromise
Counted slaves as 3/5 or 60% of a person, because the north had less African Americans than the south, and they did not want the south to have more representatives. -
Northwest Ordinance
Territory that was free land, African Americans could live there -
Constitution Passed
Fugitive Slave Act 1793, Counted slaves as 3/5 or 60% of a person. The Constitution has the rights in it, and how the government works -
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
it was a faster way to seperate the seeds from the cotton -
Louisiana Purchase
the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. The U.S. paid 50 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), for a total sum of 15 million dollars (less than 3 cents per acre) for the Louisiana territory ($233 million in 2011 dollars, less than 42 cents per acre) -
Haitian Slave Ends
Pillaged, raped, tortured, and mutilated white owners, within weeks 100,000 plus slaves revolting. Killed 4,000 whites, destroyed 180 sugar plantation, gained freedom by 1804. • Called the 1804 Massacre , ethnic cleansing: killing of all the whites. Took place throughout the country -
The Louisiana Slave Rebellion
The Louisiana Slave Rebellion happened in New Orleans, and Haitian refugees were in charge of it. They burned plantations and killed two whites. 700 white troops came and killed 66 people, took 22 prisoner. -
Missouri Compromise
Slave states or not slave states. Congress could not agree, southern states arguing with northern states. Established slavery in some new territories. Made some territories non-slave territories. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner led a rebellion with more than 40 slaves most on horse back. He was hanged and skinned. The rebels had stabbed, shot, and clubbed 55 white people to death. After this whites were angry 200 black people were murdered by white mobs, and slavery continued. -
La Amistad
Carried 53 slaves to Cuba , Africans got free of the shackles, took over the crew and ship and demanded that they be taken back to Africa. Spain demanded the slaves be taken back to Africa. Supreme Court, ruled them free, and sent them back to Africa
