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Northwest ordinance passed
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US constitution
on September 17 1787 the US constitution was signed, 39 of the 55 delegates signed the new document -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise drew a line from the eat to the west making half of the county and the other half slave -
Nat Turner Rebellion
On August 21, 1831, at 2:00 a.m.They marched throughout Southampton County in Virginia, killing at least 55 people until white authorities crushed the revolt. -
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Gage Rule in Congress
In United States history, the gag rule was a series of rules that forbade the raising, consideration, or discussion of slavery. -
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Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War was a disputed boundary between the United States and Texas on the Nueces Strip. -
Wilmot Proviso
Slavery be excluded from the Mexican Cession, known as the Wilmot Proviso. -
Harriet Tubman Escapes slavery
While there is not an exact date that she escaped slavery it happens sometime in the fall of 1849. Tubman was pretty young during the 11 years she worked as an Underground Railroad conductor. -
Compromise of 1850
Territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly began to appear in serial form in The National Era, an abolitionist weekly published in Washington, D.C. -
Dred Scott Decision
having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom, denied the legality of black citizenship in America -
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Lincoln maneuvered Douglas into espousing his “Freeport Doctrine,” which held that, despite the Dred Scott Decision, slavery could only exist in the territories if the legislature passed “police regulations” to protect it -
Bleeding Kansas
Violence broke out in 1861 when Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29. -
John Brown's raids Harpers Ferry
October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Abraham Lincoln elected
Lincoln's election thus served as the main catalyst of the American Civil War. This marked the first time that a Republican was elected president. -
South Carolina Secedes
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union on December 20, 1860. -
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Civil War
differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states