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Three Fifths Compromise
A law created that slaves were only worth 3/5 a man. This was because the southern population had so many slaves, in voting matters and national affairs the states wanted the slaves to count. -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney created this machine to increase the production of cotton, not only did he increase that but he massivley increased the use of slavery. Slaves were now forced to work more with these machines, and everyone wanted in on the deal. -
Pinckney's Treaty
The treaty resolved territorial disputes between America and Spain and granted American ships the right to free navigation of the Mississippi River -
Interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney created interchangeable parts and the north jumped on the idea. This process made mass production possible for the north. This factor was a huge part of the north winning the Civil War. -
Louisiana Purchase
America purchased land from France, about 828 million square miles.The land created 15 states and led to more dispute on which states would be slave and which free. -
Fletcher vs. Peck
the ruling of this case asserts the right of the Supreme Court to invalidate State Lawsthat were unconstitutional. -
Land Act 1820
This law abandoned credit system for buying public lands.It set a minimum fixed price of $1.25 per acre, and a minimum unit of sale of 80 acres. Because land was so cheap farms spread, this helped set up the dicision of North and South, slave and free. -
Missouri Compromise
This compromise declared Missouri as a slave state and created the state of Main, to even the scales, as a free state. -
Denmark Vesey Conspiracy
Denmark Vesey plotted a slave rebellion in Charlston, South Carolina in 1822 which was unsuccessful but important. 131 men were charged and 35 hanged in the conspiricy to kill their plantation owners. This caused panic among the whites. -
Monroe Doctrine
Set up by president Monroe, the doctrine prevented any further land claims on the western hemisphere by countries of the eastern hemisphere. This allowed America to claim their own lands and helped create the true North and South. -
Antelope Slave Ship seized
The Venezuelen Slave ship The Antelope was seized carrying 281 Africans. After the ship was under US control the issue went to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that some of the Africans were free and were to be sent back to Africa but 39 were ruled property of Spain. The Antelope and the 39 slaves were returned to Spain, Venezuela, and Portugal. -
First Railroad in US
The railroad led to a larger and easier way to sell and trade slaves. They were a huge demand and many people in the south wanted them. The slaves were a huge factor in the cotton industry that the south thrived off of. -
Nulification Crisis
The nullification crisis was a law that allowed states to attempt to “change” or “nullify” the law. This was made for states to declare a law unconstitutional and try to make it more “fair”. After this was passed, some states tried to change the law that raised tariffs on goods bought. The North and the South had many disputes over this law. This eventually led to the successions of the Southern states. The states would have even more tensions between each other and then the Civil War. -
The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison wrote a anti-slavery newsletter called the Liberator. He triggered a thirty year war of words. -
Nat Turner's Slave Revolt
Nat Turners rebellion (Southampton Insurrection) was a slave uprising in Virginia in 1831. Slaves killed anywhere between 55 and 65 white men and women. About 56 slaves were executed by the state of Virginia and anywhere from 100 to 200 were killed by white militias. This slave revolt led to laws prohibiting slaves to learn to read and write or to gather at assemblies such as church without a white Priest at the mass. -
King Cotton
By 1840 the south produced more than half the world's supply of cotton. This factor made foriegn countries dependent on the South and dutiful to them, it also held slavery as a necessity. -
Soujourner Truth
Began her abolitionist movement in 1843. Led people against slavery teaching them the harm of it and leading slaves through the underground railroad. -
Polk vs. Clay
Polk beat Clay in the "manifest Destiny" election. Polk said it was America's God given right to expand from sea to sea, this dream would create a larger split between North and South. -
Fredrick Douglass
Douglas publishes his book Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, a book about his life as a slave and where he stands. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A leader in womens rights, temperance, and abolition of slavery. She was a leader at the Seneca Falls convention and was widely known for her ability to stand up for what she believes. -
Seneca Falls Convention
A group of women involved in women's rights movements, temperance, and abolotion met together at Seneca Falls to discuss their rights and what they believed. At this meeting a new version of the Declaration of Independence was written including "all men and women." -
Harriet Tubman
When the people were segregated, many african Americans disagreed. Tubman stood up against racial segregation on busses by refusing her seat to a white person when asked to move to the back of the bus. She was arrested. -
Robert vs. Boston
Roberts v. Boston tries to end discrimination in schools in Boston Massachussets. The court ruled that racial Segregation was legal under the constitution. -
Compromise of 1850
This law was created due to the underground rail road and all the runaway slaves. It stated that all slaves that had runaway from the South were to be reported or returned by the North. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin to show the horrible side of slavery that most people never saw. This story won over most of the North and the British. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska was huge, so the government stated that the vote from popular soverignty would declare the state free or slave. People of both groups rushed to the states to place their vote. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave to a man who lived in a free state with his slave, Scott, for five years. Scott acknowledged this and went to court to fight for his freedom. The court ruled against Scott saying if he was born in a slave state, and belonged to that owner, property rights do not change. -
Lincoln
Lincoln wins the four way race for presidency, South Carolina secedes. -
Work cited
Kennedy, David M, Cohen, Lizabeth, Bailey, Thomas A. The American Pageant: A History of the Republic. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 2003. Print. "Frederick Douglas." bio. true story 4. Frederick Douglas .biography. Web. 27 May 2013. Ellsworth D. Foster ed. The American Educator (vol. 2) (Chicago, IL: Ralph Durham Company, 1921) "Dred Scott Case Trials." National Park Service 4. nps.gov. Web. 27 May 2013. . -
Emancipation Proclamation
Public Reaction: The south were burning with fury, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed many different promises scaring the south. But in the end he ended up only abolishing slavery in the north, which was already done. When forst publishing this proclamation the south was worried but the north was ready, but as it went on his promises became empty. Description: The Proclamation proclaimed to free 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves. instead it freed 50,000 slaves.
