South & the slavery controversy

By tariqbell
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    South & the slavery controversy

  • First fugitive slave law passed

  • Invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney

  • Congress outlaws the importation of African slaves

  • American Colonization Society was founded

  • Missouri Comprimise passed

  • The first issue of the Liberator is published

  • Nat Turner's slave rebellion

  • 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.

  • Wilmot Proviso is introuduced

    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

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

  • Compromise of 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.