Unit 4 week 13 assignment 2

1789

US Constitution

Established America's national government and fundamental laws.

1790

Second Great Awakening

Was a protestant religious revival in the United states.

1791

Haitian Revolt

A successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue.

1794

Ely Whitney's Cotton Gin

A machine that quickly separated cotton fibers from their seeds, and enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.

1808

End of International slave trade

A new federal law that made it illegal to import captive people from Africa into the United States.

1820

Missouri Crisis

The U.S congress had passed a law that admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine a free state.

1822

Versey Revolt

Denmark Versey was a black American leader in Charleston, South Carolina. He worked as a carpenter. In June 1822 he was accused and convicted of being the leader of "the rising," a potentially major slave revolt which was scheduled to take place in the city on July 14. He was executed on July2.

1831

Nat Turner Rebellion

The rebellion of enslaved Virginians.

1846

Mexican American War

An armed conflict between the United States and Mexico.

1850

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Part of Henry Clay's famed compromise of 1850- a group of bills that helped quiet early calls for Southern succession - this new law forcibly compelled citizens to assist in the capture of runaways.

1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin

An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S, and is said yo have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War."

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

This act created two new territories and allowed for popular sovereignty.

1857

Dred Scott Case

A decade long fight for freedom by a black enslaved man named Dred Scott

1859

Harper's Ferry Raid

An attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery.

1860

Election of Abraham Lincoln

In a four way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, absent from the ballot in ten slave states, won a national popular plurality, a popular majority compromising only Northern electoral votes.

1861

Attack on Fort Sumter

The battle of Fort Sumter was the bombordment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army. This started the American Civil War.

1865

Cotton Revolution

This Sparked growth of an Urban South.