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1619 Arrival of Slaves (I want to highlight this because of the use of…
1619 Arrival of Slaves
I want to highlight this because of the use of slave labor for plantation foreshadows the development of slavery in America.
Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800
1793 Cotton Gin
It was a machine used by the slaves to separate Cotton from its seeds. Eli Whitney was the inventor of the machine. The reason they made the Cotton Gin was that the tobacco slaves were originally producing tobacco but then it became non-profitable. Then they made the cotton gin so they could keep slaves, and still have profit.
The popularity of slaves boosted up as soon as the cotton picking was popular again. As the tobacco cash crops were dropping down, so the cotton gin revived it.
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The reason they made the Cotton Gin was that the tobacco slaves were originally producing tobacco but then it became non-profitable. Then they made the cotton gin so they could keep slaves, and still have profit.
11. Frederick Douglas:
was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
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12.Black Codes:
Black Codes" are established in South Carolina. Under these codes, enslaved African-Americans are unable to gather in groups, earn money, grow crops independently, learn to read and own high-quality clothing.
13.Texas enter the Union:
.After gaining independence from Spain in the 1820s,the citizens of the independent Republic of Texas elected Sam Houston president but also endorsed the entrance of Texas into the Union.
14. 1850 Fugitive Slave Law:
The Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their escape harsher punishments for interfering in their capture.The law was met with even more impassioned criticism and resistance than the earlier measure.
States of the North passed new measures intended to bypass and even nullify the law, and abolitionists redoubled their efforts to assist runaway slaves
Southern politicians often exaggerated the number of escaped slaves and often blamed escapes on Northerners interfering with Southern property rights. Since there was no way to confirm the number of runaway slaves. Congress enacted stricter laws regarding fugitive slaves in the United States.
15.KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT:
The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported. Consequences: The Bleeding Kansas.
15.Bleeding Kansas:
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed,The anti-slavery settlers held another election, however pro-slavery settlers refused to vote. This resulted in the establishment of two opposing legislatures within the Kansas territory. Violence soon erupted, with the anti-slavery forces led by John Brown. The territory earned the nickname "bleeding Kansas" as the death toll rose.
16. Republican Party is formed 1856:
In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories. The Whig Party, which was formed in 1834 to oppose the “tyranny” of President Andrew Jackson, had shown itself incapable of coping with the national crisis over slavery.
17.Lincoln elected president: (Nov. 6, 1860)
On this day in 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican to win the presidency, defeating a divided Democratic Party. His victory, with 40 percent of the popular vote, in a four-way race set the stage for the Civil War.
Delegates to the Republican presidential convention, held in Chicago, had nominated Lincoln on the third ballot. Among most political insiders, Lincoln’s nomination came as a surprise. The pre-convention favorite had been William Seward, a former New York governor and a current U.S. senator.
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The election of 1860 firmly established the Democratic and Republican parties as the majority parties in the United States. It also confirmed deep-seated views on slavery and states’ rights between the North and South. Before Lincoln’s inauguration, eleven Southern states had seceded from the Union
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery the north (anti-slavery) .
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1850 compromise
on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
The likelihood of Texas joining the Union as a slave state delayed any formal action by the U.S. Congress for more than a decade In 1844, Congress finally agreed to annex the territory of Texas
.As consequence On December 29, 1845, Texas entered the United States as a slave state, broadening the irrepressible differences in the United States over the issue of slavery.
compromise of 1820
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820.The meaning of the compromise passing was meaning that Missouri was recognized as a slave state and Maine was as a free state
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The first Africans to be brought to British North America landed in Virginia in 1619. They arrived on a Dutch ship that had captured them from the Spanish. Some effects Also, at this time, Europeans established sugar plantations on the islands off of Northwest Africa and the slave trade to those islands became profitable.
The population of slaves would be counted as three-fifths in total when distributing Representatives.
After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings
In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.
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