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Slavery is Introduced to the New World
Slavery began when twenty black Africans are sold in the new colony of Jamestown, Virgiana. Although, the colonists sold them as indentured servants, this act would create the idea of Slavery. This would led to the creating of the Civil War. -
New York Slave Revolt of 1712
The first conflict that would cause tensions between both the Whites Southerners and their slaves was in New York. Twenty- three escaped slaves gathered together to kill nine whites and injure a few more. This would led to 70 or more blacks being jailed and some being excecuted. This raised tensions and would led to several more slave revolts as well as led to the Civiil War. -
Virginia's Ban on Slave Trading
The state of Virginia would pass a state legislature that stated that the Slave Trade was to be considered illegal. This meant that Virginia would no longer be allowing the importation of slaves. This would cause Southerners to have to breed and eventually sell their slaves. This angers the Northern Abolitionist who believed that black slaves were more than property and demanded they have their natural rights. This would led to the Civil War. -
Contiential Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance
The first Northwest Ordiance would create the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. According to the Ordiance these states would remain as free states and it also established the Ohio River as the boundary between free and slave. This would create a legal division between the Southern slaves states and the Anti-Slavery Northern states. This would eventually led to a greater split with the Confederate South leaving the Union and leads to the Civil War. -
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin proved to the South that slavery was actually profitiable because the cotton gin made the act of picking and unraveling cotton much faster and easier. This will lead to a rapid and sudden increase the amount of slaves in the South and leds to the Civil War. -
The Missouri Compromise
This compromise proposed by Henry Clay was an attempt to control slavery in the Lousiana Territory by prohibiting slavery north of the 36°30′ border except the state of Missouri. This creates an issue between how and which states should be allowed slavery. This will eventually led to the Civil War. -
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written in favor of abolising Slavery in all states, the book was written by Abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her repersentation of the conditions most slaves had to face eversay would create anger in the Northern sates. As they believed that slaves were being treated unfairly while Southern states claimed that not all their slaves were treated that way. This dramatically increases tensions between the two sides and leds to the Civil War. -
"Bleeding Kansas"
Due to the idea of Popular Sovernigty created by Henry Clay, the conflicts in Kansas began to occur. The people were allowed to vote and decided that if they were to kill the opposition that Kansas would become what they wanted. Wheter that be a slave state or free state. This leads to massacres such as the Potawatomie Massacre and John Brown's assult on Harper's Ferry. -
John Brown's Assult on Harper's Ferry
John Brown and twelve of his followers attacked and seized an arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virgiana. His actions were stopped by Robert E. Lee but not before they caused fear to spread through the South. The fear that the Northern states would invade and attack them for their beliefs. This creates an even stronger tension between both free and slaves states and leds to the Civil War. -
Abraham Lincoln's Election
Abraham Lincoln was an Abolitionist and his election only made it clearer to the South that they had begun to lose in the battle over slavery. With Lincoln's election would come the succeesion of the Southern states and would be the final straw in creating the Civil War.