Slavery in 1820-1860

By gwest10

  • Missouri Comp

  • Denmark Vessy

    Former slave may have made a plot to destroy Charleston, SC. Major uprising against slavery.

  • American Col. Society (Liberia)

  • "Necessary Evil" and "Peculair Institution"

  • Nat Turner Revolt

    Turner was a preacher and him w/ about 80 slaves marched from farm to farm in South Hampton County, Virginia killing the inhabitants. A lot of them being woman and children. Scared whites and made slave states much harsher.

  • The Liberator

    Abolitionist newspaper created by William Lloyd Garrison which marks the start of the abolitionist movement. Later founded the American Antislavery Society.

  • John C. Calhoun

    Claims that slavery is good and beneficial to both races. He brings the phrase "positive good" into play.

  • National Slavery Convention in NY

  • La Amistad (ship)

  • Texas free state

  • William Proviso

    William Proviso brought about the idea that any land conquered from the Mexican war (Cali, Mexico, New Mexico) should be free of slaves.

  • Mex War

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Passed by US Congress part of Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holders and Northern abolitionists.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    About the conflict between an enslaved man named Tom and the brutal white slave owner Simon Legree. Was very influential causing many people to look at white owners as cruel and inhuman.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act caused tensions between antislavery and proslavery to explode on floor of US senate and in Kansas.

  • "Bleeding Kansas"

  • Dred Scott Supreme court case

  • Civil War

    Was between Union and Confederacy. The war on slavery.