Unit 7

  • Whitneyśa cotton gin transforms southern economy

  • Gabriel slave rebellionn in Virginia

  • Britian abolish slave trade

  • Congress outlaw slave trade, Royal navy froms west Africa Squadron

  • American Colonization Society formed

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Vesey slave rebellion in Charleston , South Carlina. (Republic of Liberia established in Africa)

  • Walker publishes äppeal to the colored citizens of the world)

  • Nat Turner slave rebellion in Virgina Gaarrison begins publishing The Liberator

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    Virgina legislature debates slavery and emancipation

  • British abolish slavery in West Indies. American anti-slaverty was founded

  • Abolitionist students expelled from Lane. Theological Seminary

  • U.S. Post Office orders destruction of abolitionist mail. roadcloth Mob "attacks Garrison

  • House of Representatives pases ag Resolution"

  • Mob kills abolitionist Lovejoy in Alton, Illinois

  • Canadian rebellion and Carlina incident

  • Weld publishes American Slavery as it is. Slave revolt aboard Amistad.

  • Aroostock War breaks out over Maine boundary

  • Antislavery Liberty party orginaized

  • Harrison dies after four weeks in offoce. Tyler assume presidency

  • Webster- Ashburton treaty

  • Polk defeats Clay in Manifest Destiny election

  • Calb Cushing signs Treaty of Wanghia with China

  • Douglass publishes Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass.

  • United Sates annexes Texas

  • Walker Traiff. Independent treasury restored. United states settles Oregon dispute with Britain. United State sand Mexico clash over Texas boundary. Kenrny takes Santa Fe. Frémont conquers California. Wilmot Proviso passes House of Representatives.

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    Mexican War

  • Battle of Buena Vista. Scott takes Mexico city

  • Free soil party organized

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Brish seize port of San Juan del Norte in Nicaragua. Treaty pf Guadalupe Hidalglo ends Mexican war. Taylor defeats Cass and Van Burren for presidency

  • Califorina gold rush

  • Fillmore assume presidency after Taylor´s death. Compromiise of 1850, including Fugitive Slve Law. Clayton- Bulwer Treaty with Britian

  • Australian gold rush

  • Pierce defeates Scott fot presidency

  • Gadsden Purchase from Mexico

  • Commodore Perry opens Japan. Ostand Manifsto proposes seizure of Cuba. Kansas- Nebraska Act repeals Missouiri Cpmpromise of 1820. Republican party organized

  • William Walker becomes president of Nicaragua and legalizs slavery

  • Meiji Restoration in Japan