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Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia with about 20 men on board. First Africans on American continent
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Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin on March 14, 1794. Machine separated cotton fibers from seeds.
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Prohibited importation of slaves. Earliest date permitted by the constitution because Constitution previously protected the slave trade
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Admittance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. Established the 36'30 line. Also known as the Compromise of 1820
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Movement to end slavery and slave trade in America, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Grimke Sisters, 1830s
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slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. Rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white
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The country of Liberia was founded in 1821 by former slaves from the United States of America as a result of the end of the transatlantic slave trade and the efforts of the American Colonization Society
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network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. Height of railroad was between 1850-1860
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Henry Clay proposed an idea to solve pro/anti slavery debates. California=Free, popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico, abolished slave trade in D.C.
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passed by Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers
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Anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that depicted the horrors of slavery
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Between 1854- 1861a series of fights broke out over whether slavery should be legal in Kansas
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passed on May 30, 1854 that declared Kansas and Nebraska could choose whether to be a slave or free state.
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May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate when Representative Preston Brooks used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner
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legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom
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Series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas from August 21, 1858 to October 15, 1858
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Republican Abraham Lincoln beat Breckinridge, Douglas and Bell. Eventually led to South secession.
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It changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free. Didn't have any immediate effect as the South separated from the North.
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Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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One of the Reconstruction Amendments that addresses citizenship rights, equal protection of the laws and was in response to issues related to former slaves.
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Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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Informal deal that settled the 1876 presidential election. Federal government pulled the last troops out of the South and ended the Reconstruction era.
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First African American to play major league baseball. He broke the color barrier in baseball as the Dodgers started him at first base
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movement with the goal of enforcing constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already enjoyed.
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speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. Called for civil and economic rights as well as racial equality
