The nonstop stream of newcomers into Virginia put pressure on the Indian land and created social tension among the whites

Poor Virginians were at a disadvantage and wanted some of the land acquired by the rich. They were tired of high taxes and low prices for tobacco

First, the fight for hogs between the Native Americans and white planters resulted in the murder of the planter's herdsmen (overseer)

Next, the murdered 5 native chieftains which enraged the Indians to become vindictive towards the frontier settlements

Bacon went over Berkeley's authority & put together the rebel group of more than 1,000 men. They were ready to terrorize the Indians

As the attacks continued, Nathaniel Bacon's overseer was killed

When Governor Berkeley did nothing concerning Bacon's commander. Bacon became enraged and thats what sparked him to put together a rebellion

Bacon promised the men involved that he would free them from being servants & slaves

Men that joined were landless servants, small farmers and slaves of the wealthy planters

Berkeley didn't want warfare between the Indians & colonist b/c the Indians traded deerskin with the colonist that was profitable for them

Bacon and his now small army of a few 100 issued a "Declaration of the People of Virginia" for Berkeley's "corruption" & "attempting to take the governor into custody"

As a result of Berkeley resisting the Declaration, Bacon's men in frustration burned Jamestown

The king found Berkeley's severity to be foolish and called Berkeley to England where he died within a year

The house of Burgesses decided to end indenturedments for the new disadvantaged colonist & therefor established a different source of labor which began the transporting of slaves on the West coast of Africa

A law passed by English Legislature that made slavery legal in the Caribbean Island of Barbados

The law was suppose to protect both the slave & the master but it more so provided the master with protections

The law required the masters to provide each slave w/one pair of clothing every year

Even denied slaves basic rights under English Common Law such as - the right to life

It allowed slave owners to do as they wished w/the slaves such as burning them alive & mutilating them

Carolina code - all "Negroes, Mulattoes, & Indians" sold into into slavery was for life as was children born of enslaved mothers

During the French & Indian War, British officials & called a meetings of northern colonies as far south as Maryland

21 representatives from 7 colonies gathered in Albany, New York. It was the first time colonial delegates had met to take joint action

Called for 11 colonies to band together, Headed by a president appointed by the king

Each colonial assembly would send 2-7 delegates to a "grand council" which would have legislative powers

Overall, the plan was developed by a committee led by Benjamin Franklin which proposed that the colonies unite to form a federal government

The Albany Congress approved the plan but the British officials and the colonial legislatures or (delegates) rejected it

Out of fear of losing their own authority to any larger political entity

Consequently, the delegates wanted a military alliance against Indian attacks instead so the plan was rejected

The Iroquois tribes fought against each other before they formed a union

They became so strong that they out # the Dutch & English traders which forced the traders to acquire beaver belts

By the seventeenth century, a council of 50 chieftains oversaw the 12,000 members of the Iroquois League

The constitution established a Great Council of 50 men leaders each representing 1 of the female-led clans of the Iroquois nations

Anytime the leaders dealt with an important issue, the matter had to be submitted to the people for them to review (both men & woman)

By 1700 enslaved africans made up 11% of the American population

1619 A Dutch ship (White Lion) stopped at Jamestown & unloaded "20 Negars"

In New England, there were not as many slaves due to there being no plantations so the pop. made up 2%; therefor "family slavery" prevailed with masters & slaves living under the same roof

Slavery was much more prevalent in the Chesapeake colonies & the Carolinas due to having plantations

With the slave population being so robust in the Chesapeake regions, the slaves pop. grew

To speed efforts to gain profits, the Carolinas recruited English planters from Barbados

The English there in Barbados had developed huge sugar plantations there

All the land on Barbados had been claimed therefor forcing the sons of the planters to look elsewhere to find estates of their own

Planters from the Caribbean brought many slaves to Carolina to clear land, plant crops, and cattle

The worst for Madison was that the British continually violated the American flag on the great Briton highway of nations & have seized & carried off persons traveling under it's protection

The north is developing into an industrial hub of the US where as the south was more agriculturally based

Tariffs were good for the north but bad for the south (Sell cotton over seas)

The south saw the tariff that Jackson put together as an unfair deal

John C Calhoun (vice pres of Jackson) led the rally against the tariffs

Andrew Jackson threatened to take military action against secession

The Nullification Crisis was the first time in which the sectional interests of the North and the South had truly came into conflict

The conflicts between the North and South beginning with the Nullification Crisis would ultimately lead to the American Civil

South Carolina eventually became First State to Secede from the Union on December 20th, 1860 followed by the establishment of the Confederate States of America

Eerie canal was build In 1817 & completed in 1825, the giant canal was constructed from the upper Hudson river - Lake eerie by Dewitt Clinton

Makes the North participate in slavery. This law makes it to where the slave hunters can enter the North to capture what they see as they're escaped property

Punished people who harbored runaways w/ civil & criminal penalties

Event: Aftermath of the Mexican war with the acquisition of territory in the west & pressure about admitting a state in the west that doesn't have a history of slavery

He tried to start a revolt against slavery by seizing the US arsenal

Conflict between antislavery in the north and pro slavery in the south over the issue of slavery

Written by Harriett Beecher Stowe, was credited by helping fuel the abolitionist cause

Important b/c when Lincoln meet Stowe at the end of the Civil War, he declared , "so this is the little lady who started this great war"

Before Lincoln's inauguration, 7 states declared their secession & formed the confederacy

The bombardment of & surrender of Fort Sumter in Charleston South Carolina

Senator Henry Clay offered a package of proposals to try to adjust the country over the debate

In 1865, the United States defeated the Confederate States and abolished slavery nation-wide

Fought between the United States & the Confederate States

Battle where Grant defeats the Confederate forces & splits the Confederacy in 2 & occupies the Mississippi

The confederates did not have shoes and they went to Gettysburg to get them