3/5th Compromise
Compromise of 1820
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska of Act
Abraham Lincoln is elected
It was a compromise made between delegates from southern states and those from northern states during the US Constitutional Convention of 1787. This agreement gave the Southern states more electoral power than they would have had if the enslaved population had been ignored entirely. The agreement allowed slavery to spread and played a role in the forced removal of Native Americans from their lands. The effect gave the southern states a third more seats in Congress. The three-fifths compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person.
was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri. The 16th United States Congress passed the legislation on March 3, 1820, and President James Monroe signed it on March 6, 1820.
Lincoln failed 2 times as president. And lastly, he got president In 1860. Mostly because of his Anti-slavery. And his opponent Stephen Douglas said, “If the crocodile and the black man are together, I will help the black, But if white people and black people are together, I will help white people." but, at that time, slavery was an issue. So Abraham Lincoln was elected.
The Kansas Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1854. It allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters came to Kansas to influence the outcome of the first election. The results were not accepted by them. The anti-slavery settlers held another election, however pro-slavery settlers refused to vote. This resulted in Kansas dividing two opposing legislatures.
The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah.
At 1619, they arrived first slaves in America
Textile manufacturing
The land was dying
Less the tobacco
The first 19 or so Africans to reach the English colonies arrived in Point Comfort, Virginia near Jamestown, brought by English privateers.
Why the tobacco was decreased?
Europe stop smoking
Less the money
Second Great Awakening
why happened?
Because that was a U.S. religious revival.
American Colonization Society
Gabriel’s Rebellion
Congress bans importation of new slaves
Fugitive slave clause
Cotton gin
It is a law that slaves try to escape from the estate if they get caught. They need to be sent back to their state.
Cotton was increased
They made lots of clothes so wanted many cotton
Cotton gin is a process to get the seed removed from the cotton machine.
Radical Abolitionists 1830
Gabriel planned the revolt during the spring and summer of 1800. On August 30, 1800, Gabriel intended to lead slaves into Richmond, but the rebellion was postponed because of rain.
is a United States federal law that provided that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. It took effect in 1808, the earliest date permitted by the United States Constitution.
This law was promoted by Thomas Jefferson.
And with the legal supply of imported slaves terminated, the domestic trade increased in importance.
American organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa.
It was founded in 1816 by Robert Finley.
The membership was overwhelmingly white—with some clergymen and abolitionists but also a large number of slave owners—and all generally agreed with the prevailing view of the time that free blacks could not be integrated into white America.
In the 1830s, American abolitionists, led by Evangelical Protestants, gained momentum in their battle to end slavery. ... As the century progressed, branches of the abolitionist movement became more radical, calling for the immediate end of slavery.
7 Though it started as a movement with religious underpinnings, abolitionism became a controversial political issue that divided much of the country.
Black Codes 1840:
Fugitive Slave Law 1850
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1851
Bleeding Kansas 1854
Republican Party is formed 1856
In U.S. history, any of numerous laws enacted in the states of the former Confederacy after the American Civil War and intended to assure the continuance of white supremacy.
The black codes had their roots in the slave codes that had formerly been in effect. The premise behind chattel slavery in America was that slaves were property, and, as such, they had few or no legal rights.
Frederick Douglass
Texas enters the union 1836:
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist , orator , writer, and statesman.
William Lloyd Garrison
He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society , and promoted immediate, as opposed to gradual, emancipation of slaves in the United States .
He is best known for his widely-read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator , which he founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by Constitutional amendment in 1865.
The Texas annexation was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845.
The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
The Act was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy." It required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate.
They make a law more strict so America can’t ignore the rule.
An abolitionist novel, it achieved wide popularity, particularly among white readers in the North, by vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin tells the story of Uncle Tom , depicted as a saintly, dignified slave.
Or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological conflict over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas .
At the core of the conflict was the question of whether the Kansas Territory would allow or prohibit slavery, and thus enter the Union as a slave state or a free state.
The conflict was characterized by years of electoral fraud , raids, assaults, and retributive murders carried out in Kansas and neighboring Missouri by pro-slavery " Border Ruffians " and anti-slavery " Free-Staters ".
That was a presidential nominating convention that met from June 17 to June 19 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the first national convention in the history of the Republican Party, and was held to nominate the party's candidates for president and vice president in the 1856 election.
The convention selected former Senator John C. Frémont of California for president and former Senator William L. Dayton of New Jersey for vice president.