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English Settlers in Virgina
~English settlers in Virginia purchase 20 Africans from a Dutch ship.
~The Africans were sold as indentured servants, not slaves. The distinction being an indentured servant may ultimately become free for working for some number of years
~It was not long before all Africans arriving were treated as slaves, bought and sold into a lifetime of slavery for them and their descendents. -
Gabriel Prosser
~The results of the 1800 census show a total population of 5,084,912 including 887,612 slaves or 17% of the population. Slaves are virtually non-existent in northern states and as high as 42% in South Carolina and 39% in Virginia.
~August - Slave Gabriel Prosser leads a group of armed slaves in rebellion. His plan involved Capitol Square in Richmond, Virginia and taking Governor James Monroe as a hostage, in order to bargain with city authorities for freedom. -
Missouri Compromise
~In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country.
~To keep the peace, Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state
~It also passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory, establishing a boundary between free and slave regions that remained the law of the land u -
Frederick Douglass publishes his autobiography
~ Former slave
~ Narrative of the Life Frederick Douglass
~ "If there is no struggle, there is no process" -
The Compromise of 1850
~The Compromise of 1850 is the name given to a package of bills passed in September 1850, aimed at defusing a stand-off between the Northern free states and the Southern slave states.
~Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South
~ As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
The Kansas - Nebraska Act
~The Kansas-Nebraska Act passes Congress and thus overturns the Missouri Compromise opening the Northern territory to slavery
~Both sides begin to send settlers into the areas in an effort to influence the future status of these areas.
~It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Abraham Lincoln
~ Served as President from March 1861 until his assanation in April 1865
~On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
~The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. -
Battle of Bull Run
` it is fought near Manassas, Virginia
` two armies fought for the first time on the fields overlooking Bull Run.
` The Confederates won a solid victory bringing them to the height of their power. -
American Civil War
~The civil war was fought from 1861 to 1855
~Fought between the Northern and Southern States
~Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States during the Civil War
~The Civil War ended slavery. -
Surrender of Fort Donelson, Tenneessee
` If the Confederates did not move quickly, they would be starved into submission.
` Floyd and Pillow turned over command of Fort Donelson to Buckner and slipped away to Nashville with about 2,000 men.
` "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted." Buckner surrendered. -
Battle of Pea Ridge
` 26,000 soldiers fought here to decide the fate of Missouri and the West.
` Pea Ridge was one of the most crucial Civil War battles.
` The 4,300 acre battlefield honors those who fought for their beliefs -
Battle of Shiloh
` Nearly 110,000 American troops clashed in a bloody contest that resulted in 23,746 casualties.
` General Johnston planned to smash Grant's army at Pittsburg Landing before Buell arrived.
` nearly 44,000 men present for duty from the army of Mississippi.
