Significant events which lead to the abolition of slavery (USA)

By Amelia.dawson

  • slavery started

    a significant number of slaves started coming to america

  • slave rebellion -Gabriel Prosser

    a slave rebellion was formed but many of them failed

  • effort to stop slavery

    In an early effort to stop slavery, the American Colonization Society, founded in 1816, proposed the idea of freeing slaves and sending them back to Africa.

  • government debate

    the government had a debate for right to restrict slavery over Missouri’s application for statehood ended in a compromise, Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state

  • The abolitionist movement began as a more organized

    The abolitionist movement began as a more organized, radical and immediate effort to end slavery than earlier campaigns. It officially emerged around 1830.

  • Nat Turner rebellion

    Nat Turner murdered 55 white men, in his group there was 75 black men to help him. later the armed resistance from local white people and the arrival of state militia forces overwhelmed them.

  • Amos Dresser was publicly whipped

    In 1833, a white student at Lane Theological Seminary named Amos Dresser was publicly whipped in Nashville, Tennessee, for possessing abolitionist literature while traveling through the city.

  • a pro-slavery mob attacked a warehouse

    In 1837, a pro-slavery mob attacked a warehouse in Alton, Illinois, in an attempt to destroy abolitionist press materials. During the raid, they shot and killed newspaper editor and abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy.

  • Congress passed the controversial Fugitive Slave Act,

    Congress passed the controversial Fugitive Slave Act, which required all escaped enslaved people to be returned to their owners and American citizens to cooperate with the captures.

  • both pro- and anti-slavery groups inhabited the Kansas Territory

    After the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was passed, both pro- and anti-slavery groups inhabited the Kansas Territory

  • a pro-slavery group attacked the town of Lawrence

    a pro-slavery group attacked the town of Lawrence, which was founded by abolitionists from Massachusetts. In retaliation, abolitionist John Brown organized a raid that killed five pro-slavery settlers.

  • Brown led 21 men to capture the U.S

    Then, in 1859, Brown led 21 men to capture the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He and his followers were seized by a group of Marines and convicted of treason. Brown was hanged for the crime.

  • civil war

    union states (north) vs confederate states (south)

  • slavery ended

    the emancipation proclaimed Abraham Lincoln (USA president) declares all slaves in the Confederacy (southern states) shall be free

  • the Constitution was ratified to include the Thirteenth Amendment

    And in 1865, the Constitution was ratified to include the Thirteenth Amendment, which officially abolished all forms of slavery in the United States.