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Rhode Island enters the union
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Churches Founded
Black Baptist and African Methodist Episocopal churches founded -
Second Great Awakening
Both blacks and women began to participate in evangelical revivals associated with the Second Great Awakening at the end of the 18th century. From these revivals grew the roots of the both the feminist and abolitionist movements -
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Slave Population
in 1790 there were 697,681 slaves
in 1800 there were 893,602 slaves
in 1810 there were 1,191,362 slaves
in 1820 there were 1,538,022 slaves
in 1830 there were 2,009,043 slaves
in 1840 there were 2,487,355 slaves
1850- 3,204,313
1860- 3,953,760 -
Vermont enters the union
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Kentucky enters the union
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Cotton Gin invented
Eli Whitney was among the first to develop a cotton gin (short for "engine") that separated seeds from short-staple cotton. This hardier cotton variety thrived in the new land of the Old Southwest, and could now be processed far more efficiently than had been possible by hand. Indeed, the gin increased by fifty times what a single person could process in a day. This new cotton production, in turn, provided the raw material for the booming industrial textile mills. -
Tennessee enters the union
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The district surronding the port became the most importent center of settlement in the Old Southwest
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House servent
BY one calculation, fully one-thrird of the female slaves in Virginia worked as house servents -
Gabriel Prosser's revolt discovered in Virginia
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Insurrection of Gabriel Prosser in Richmond
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Fled the stste
Nearly half of all White South Carolinians born after eventually fled the state -
Ohio enters the union
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Virginia tightens law on manumission of slaves
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New World (the year the international slave trade ended)
The growth of the African American slave population was not due to better treatment than in other New World slave socities, but to the higher fertility of African American women, who in had a crude birth rate of 35-40, causing a 2.2% yearly population growth. -
COngress prohibits U.S. participation in the international slave trade
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Subsequent western land booms dramatically changed the population of the original Southern sates
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Georgia and South Caolina
Produced 60 mil pounds of cotton a year -
Louisiana enters the union
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War of 1812
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Begginning with the defeat of the Creeka at Horseshoe Bend
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"Alabama Fever"
Migrartion to the Old Southwest -
Reverend Allen
The Reverend Allen joined with African American ministers from other cities to form the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) denomination. -
Indiana enters the union
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Mississippi enters the union
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Illinois enters the union
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Missouri Crisis
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Alabama enters the union
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Maine enters the union
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Slave population
Cumulatively, between 1820 and 1860, nearly 50 percent of the slave population of the Upper South took part against their will in Southern expansion. -
Every Decade
In every decade after 1820, at least 150,000 slaves were uprooted either by slave trading or planter migration to the new areas, and in the expansions of the 1830s and 1850s the number reached a quarter of a million. -
John James Audubon visited along the river front
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Subsequent western land booms dramatically changed the population of the original Southern sates
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Lower South slaves
An estimated 1 million slaves migragted involuntarily to the Lower South. Between 1820 and 1860 -
Missourienters the union
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The chance discovery of Denmark Vesey's plot in Charleston
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Denmark Vesey's conspiracy in Charleston
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Secret Ministry
free African American ministers like Andrew Marshall of Savannah and many more enslaved black preachers and lay ministers preached, sometimes secretly, to slaves. -
Rumors that their slaves were conspining to murder them during the 4th of July
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Nat Turner's revolt in Virginia
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William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing antidlavery newspaper, the Liberator
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Virginia legislature debates and defeats a measure for gradual emancipation
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Nullification Crisis
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"Flush Times"
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Britian free slaves throughout the empire, including in is Caribbean colonies
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Natchez
A British visitor to Natchez in 1835 noted slave "mechanics, draymen,hostelers, labourers, hucksters and wash women and the heterogeneous multiude of every other occupation." -
Arkansas enters the union
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Michigan enters the union
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Pregnant Black Women
When the British actress FAnny Kemble came to live on her husband's Georgia plantation, what shocked her the more deeply than any other aspect of the slave system was the treatment of Pregnant Black Women. -
A tax from town council for $10 per floatboat
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The measures that ultimentely rovoked the floatboatmen's threats
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"Trail of Tears"
The 5 civilized tribes - The Cherokee, Chickasaws, Choctaw, Creeks, and Seminoles. Were forced to give up their lands and move to Indian Territory -
Florida enters the union
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Texas enters the union
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Iowa enters the union
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Wisconsin enters the union
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Life Expectancy
White People as well as Black died, as the expectancy figures show: 40-43 years for white people and 30-33 years for black people. -
California enters the union
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Cotton percentage
55 percent of all slaves were engaged in cotton growing. 20 percent labored to produce other crops: tobacco (10%), rice, sugar, and hemp. -
States
More than 50,000 South Carolina natives living in Georgia, almost as many in Alabama, and 26,000 in Mississippi -
Minnesota enters the union
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Oregon enters the union
