Slavery In America 1800's

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  • 1808

    1808
    United States bans slave trade importing African slaves is outlawed but smuggling continues.

  • 1820

    1820
    Missouri Compromise Missouri is admitted to the Union as a slave state, Manie as a free state. Slavery is forbidden in any subsequent territories north of latitide.

  • 1822

    1822
    Slave revolt: South Carolina freed slave denmark vesey attempts a rebellion in Charleston. Thrity-five participants in the ill-fated uprising are hanged.

  • 1831

    1831
    Slave Revolt: Virginia Slave preacher Nat Turner leads a two-day uprising against whites, killing about 60. Militiamen crush the revolt then spend two months searching for turner, who is eventually caught and hanged. Enraged Southerners impose harsher restrictions on their slaves.

  • 1835

    1835
    Censorship Southern states expel abolitionists and forbid mailing of anti slavery propaganda.

  • 1846-48

    1846-48
    Mexican- American war defeated, Mexico yields an enormous amount of territory to the United Staes. Americans then wrestle with a controversial topic: Isn slavery permitted in the new lands?

  • 1847

    1847
    Frederick Douglass's newspaper escaped slave frederick douglass begins publishing the north star in rochester, New York

  • 1849

    1849
    Harriet Tubman Escapes After fleeing slavery, Tubman returns south at least 15 times to help rescue several hundred others.

  • 1850

    1850
    Compromise of 185 in exchange for California's entering the union as a free state, northern congressmen accept a harsher fugitive slave act.

  • 1852

    1852
    Uncle tom's cabin published harriet beecher stowe's novel about the horrors of slavery sells 300,00 copies within a year of publication

  • 1854

    1854
    Kansas-Nebraska act setting aside the missouri compromise of 1820, Congress allows these two new territories to choose whether to allow slavery. Violent clashes erupt.

  • 1857

    1857
    Dred Scott Decision the united states supreme court decides seven to two that blacks can never be citizens and that congress has no authority to outlaw slavery in any territory.

  • 1860

    1860
    Abraham Lincoln of Illinois becomes the first Republican to win the united states Presidency.

  • 1860

    1860
    Southern Secession South Carolina seceds in December. More states follow the next year.

  • 1861-65

    1861-65
    United States civil war four years of bruial conflict claim 623,00 lives.

  • 1863

    1863
    Emancipation Proclamation President Abraham Lincoln decrees that all slaves in Rebel territory are free on January 1, 1863

  • 1865

    1865
    Slavery Abolished the 13 Amendment to the United States Constitution outlawed slavery.