South & the slavery controversy

South & the slavery controversy

Period: Jan 1, 1793 to Dec 31, 1860

First fugitive slave law passed

May 17, 1793

Invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney

Mar 14, 1794

Congress outlaws the importation of African slaves

Mar 2, 1807

American Colonization Society was founded

Dec 21, 1816

Missouri Comprimise passed

Jan 28, 1820

The first issue of the Liberator is published

Jan 1, 1831

Nat Turner's slave rebellion

Aug 21, 1831

In 1835, the government ordered the southern postmasters to destroy abolitionist material due to anti-abolitionist mobbing and rioting at a postal office in Charleston, South Carolina.

Jan 5, 1835

Wilmot Proviso is introuduced

May 17, 1846

The Wilmot Proviso was a document that tried to prevent slavery from being practiced in the territory won from the Mexican War. It didn't passs inciting more debate over the issue of slavery.

Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery

Feb 15, 1849

Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective and celebrated leaders of the Underground Railroad.

Compromise of 1850

Jan 24, 1850

The continuing debate whether territory gained in the Mexican War should be open to slavery is decided in the Compromise of 1850: California is admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico territories are left to be decided by popular sovereignty, and the slave trade in Washington, DC is prohibited.