Week 13 Assignment 2

Haitian Revolt (1791-1804)- The Haitian Revolt was the anti-slavery and anti-colonial rebellion of Haitians against the overpowering French government.

Cotton Revolution- The Cotton Revolution was the mass production of cotton in the period following the invention of the cotton gin which also lead to a new, significant rise in the population of slaves in the South.

Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831)- Nat Turner's Rebellion was one of the largest slave rebellions in American history. Nearly 70 white men were killed; this caused them to begin revoking rights from free and enslaved blacks out of fear.

U.S. Constitution (1789)- The Constitution is the document which in which the entire U.S. government is lain out.

Harper's Ferry Raid (1859)- Harper's Ferry Raid was an attempt by abolitionist John Brown to initiate a massive slave rebellion from the U.S. armory; however, no slaves appeared and he was eventually killed by the U.S. military.

Second Great Awakening (1790)- The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival in the U.S. which sparked many movements such as Abolition and Women's Rights.

Dred Scott Case (1857)- The Dred Scott Case was a Supreme Court case in which the court ruled that Scott was not granted freedom event though his master had taken him to a free state and allowed him to live as a free man for years. The justice also declared that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)- The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a law passed which gave the territories of Kansas and Nebraska popular sovereignty and essentially undid the Missouri Compromise.

Missouri Crisis (1819)- The Missouri Crisis is the name given to the issue of whether Missouri would be allowed to enter the union as a slave state. This was solved with Henry Clay's Missouri Compromise which drew a line dividing the slave states from the free states.

Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin (1794)- The Cotton Gin was a machine invented by Eli Whitney that made harvesting cotton much more easy and efficient, allowing it to become a very profitable crop in the South.

Mexican American War (1846-1848)- The Mexican American War was a war between Mexico and America over the border of Texas and the land that is today the American Southwest. The Americans won the war and gained nearly all of the land which they were fighting over.

End of International Slave Trade (1807)- The end of the slave trade was an act by the many countries to help prevent the spread of slavery in hopes that it would soon die out; however, by this time in America, there were enough African slaves to keep the population in high numbers.

Vesey Revolt (1822)- The Vesey Revolt was an attempted slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina, led by Denmark Vesey. Unfortunately, Vesey was executed before the rebellion was able to take place.

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)- Uncle Tom's Cabin was a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe depicting the brutal treatment which some slaves received. This book became a large reason that many Northerners were so strongly opposed to slavery.

Attack on Fort Sumter (1861)- The attack on Fort Sumter occurred because the Southern fort was being blockaded for refusing to fly the Confederate flag. Although Lincoln was warned to not supply the starving troops, he sent a ship anyway. This attack officially began the Civil War.

Election of Abraham Lincoln (1860)- Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 despite not being put on the ballot in many Southern states. When Lincoln was declared the winner of the election, South Carolina and 6 other Southern states seceded from the Union.

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850- The Fugitive Slave Act was a law passed as a part of the Compromise of 1850 which made not reporting a runaway slave or helping a runaway slave a crime with a severe jail sentence.