timeline

Haitian Revolt

1791-1804

Struggle in which Haitian slaves gained their independence

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

September 18, 1850

Law passed by Congress to prevent escaped slaves from fleeing

Vesey Revolt

1822

Slave Revolt led by Denmark Vesey

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1852

Anti-slavery novel written by Beecher Stowe

End of international slave trade

1808

Act by congress that made the trading of slaves abroad a federal crime

Attack on Fort Sumter

April 12, 1861

First battle of Civil War

Election of Abraham Lincoln

November 6, 1860

Primary catalyst of the American Civil War

Mexican American War

1846-1848

Armed conflict between the United STates and Mexico as the US was trying to fulfill it's manifest destiny

Ely Whitney's cotton gin

1794

Reduced labor of removing seeds from cotton

Missouri Crisis

1820

Debate on rather the new states shold be a slave state or a free state

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854

Bill that allowed new settlers of the states decide if they would be slave or free states

Dred Scott Case

Decided in 1857

case that decided descendants of slaves were not US citizens

Second Great Awakeing

1790

Protestant religious revival

Harper's Ferry Raid

October 16-18, 1859

Effort to initiate an armed slave revolt

US Constitution

1789

Supreme Law of the United States

Nat Turner Rebellion

August 1831

Slave rebellion led by Nat Turner

Cotton Revolution

Beginning in 1830's

Time period where cotton business was booming