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When slavery arrived in America
Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestownto aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation. -
Slavery trading Ebolition
President Thomas Jefferson signed into act a bill approved by Congress the day before “to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States.” Three weeks later, on the 25th, the British House of Lords passed an Act for the Abolition of The Slave Trade. -
The Missouri Compromise
They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. -
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Wilmot Proviso
was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War. -
Compromise of 1850
After the Mexican-American war were resolved in the Compromise of 1850. It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former’s favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. -
Fugitive slave acts
that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. Enacted by Congress in 1793, the first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published
was an anti-slavery novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.” -
Kansas-Nebrasks Act
that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. -
Bleeding Kansas
is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case
the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.