Time line

Flowchart nodes

• Time Line Of Major Events 

• 1791-1804

• Haitian Revolt

• The Haitian Revolt helped splinter the Atlantic basin into clear zones of freedom and unfreedom.

• 1840-1850

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• The act compled all the citizen to assist in  the capture of runaway slaves.

• 1860

• Election of Abraham Lincoln

• The Election of Abraham Lincoln had great tension in the South over issues with slavery.

• 1861

• Attack on Fort Sumter 

• The Confederacy seized Fort Sumter and then four more states joined the the Confederacy

• 1858 

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Uncle Tom's Cabin widened the chasm of the North and South and greatly strengthen the Northern abolitionism

• 1820-1846

• Vesey Revolt 

• The Vesey Revolt threatened lives and property throughout the Carolinas.

• 1808

• End of International Slave Trade

• The slave trade was banned but became more prominent with the cotton plantations in the deep South 

• 1848

• Mexican American War

• The Mexican American War caused sectional strife over the expansion of slavery.

• The South wanted to keep slavery because it was a vital part to their economy

• 1820

• Missouri Crisis

• It marked prolonged sectional conflict over the extension of slavery

• 1854

• Kansas Nebraska Act 

• It raised the possibility that slavery could be extended into territories where it had been banned one before 

• 1857

• Dred Scott Case

• Slaves had no legal rights in court which meant they were property and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

• 1790-1800

• Second Great Awakening 

• It made people see who they really were which helped with abolitionism and the end of slavery

• 1860

• Harper's Ferry Raid 

• It inflamed tensions and raised the stakes for the presidential election

• 1850

• 1831

• US Constitution 

• Nat Turner Rebellion

• The North wanted a strong national government and the South wanted individual states to have more power than the Federal government

• It helped strengthen the positions of abolitionists and slave holders in the North and South 

• The Cotton Revolution was very profitable for the Southern states and abolishing 

• Ely Whitney's Cotton Gin

• 1793

• 1831

• Cotton Revolution