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Slavery/Abolition in America
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Virginia Act
George 11 repeals the 1705 Virginia Act, where slaves were deemed real estate. "If any slave resist his master...correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction...the master shall be free of all punishment...as if such accident never happened." -
First Black Church
The first seperate black church in America is founded in South Carolina. During this time slaves in Massachusettes unseccessfully convinve the government for their freedom. -
Continental Congress sign the Declaration of Independence
In Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, members of the Continental Congress sign the Declaration of Independence. -
The Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance forbids slavery, except as criminal punishment in the Northwest territory. Residents of the territory are required to return fugitive slaves. -
Fugitive Slave Law Created
Allowed slave owners to to cross state lines in order to find fugitives and this made it a penal offense to abet runaway slaves. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise forbids slavery in the Louisiana territory. Maine is admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. Some people know this as " a balance of power." -
First National Anti-Slavery Society Convention
The first Convention of the Anti-Slavery Society of American Women was in New York City. Both black and white women attended. -
Free Soil Party
Anti-Slavery groups organized the Free Soil Party. This group did not want slavery to move westward in the United States. -
Ku Klux Klan Act
This Act gave the federal government the right to give punishment where civil rights are not held and to use military force against the anti-civil rights conspiracies. -
Exoduster Movement
Former slaves were relocated to Kansas. During that year, about 30,000 blacks were moved to Kansas
