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A 1691 Act prohibiting interracial marriage banished interracial married…
A 1691 Act prohibiting interracial marriage banished interracial married couples from the colony. Under the law, a white woman who had a mulatto child was fined and bound out to servitude if she could not pay; her child was also bound out.
Miscegenation law in Virginia 1691: Act XVI, Laws of Virginia: April 1691: Important because this began a string of laws that said white people could not marry people of color or from different races.
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Miscegenation law in Virgina
The Three-Fifths Compromise was reached among state delegates during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.
3/5 Compromise
3/5 Compromise: June 11 1787: Important because it provided additional representation in the House of Representatives of slave states compared to the free states.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeAM4xr8Jyo
The acts called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.
Compromise of 1850: January 29, 1850: Important because the bills provided for slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty in the admission of new states, prohibited the slave trade in the District of Columbia, settled a Texas boundary dispute, and established a stricter fugitive slave act.
Compromise of 1850
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvlUqV1vwTc
This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation. It also outlawed slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.
Missouri Compromise: March 2, 1820: Important because it maintained a delicate balance between free and slave states.
Missouri Compromise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68gi3C0A9Fo
The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.
Fugitive Slave Act: September 18, 1850: Important because it made the hunting down of escaped slaves, even in free states, fully legal.
Fugitive Slave Act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcdOWKiKgWU
The United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
The Dredd Scott Case: April 6 1846: Important because the U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts
The Dredd Scott Case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0OW18pIo8c
John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. Descending upon the town in the early hours of October 17th, Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal.
John Brown Rebellion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sKqUnKK6sI
John Brown Rebellion: October 16, 1859: Important because for abolitionists and antislavery activists, black and white, Brown emerged as a hero, a martyr, and ultimately, a harbinger of the end of slavery.
Turner and his followers started at his master's house and killed the entire family. They marched throughout Southampton County in Virginia, killing at least 55 people until white authorities crushed the revolt. Turner avoided capture for nearly two months before he was caught.
Nat Turner Slave rebellion: August 21, 1831: Important because it stiffened pro-slavery, anti-abolitionist convictions that persisted in that region until the American Civil War (1861–65).
Nat Turner Slave rebellion
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The election of 1860 was one of the most pivotal presidential elections in American history. It pitted Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln against Democratic Party nominee Senator Stephen Douglas, Southern Democratic Party nominee John Breckinridge and Constitutional Union Party nominee John Bell. The main issue of the election was slavery and states’ rights. Lincoln emerged victorious and became the 16th President of the United States during a national crisis that would tear states and families apart and test Lincoln’s leadership and resolve: The Civil War.
Presidential Election of 1860: November 6, 1860: Important because Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.
Presidential Election of 1860
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vna0ile2ogg
Union forces marched south from Washington, D.C., and attacked Confederate forces. The Confederates were able to turn back the assault, forced the Union forces to retreat, and gained a strategic victory. Illustration of the First Battle of Bull Run by Kurz & Allison.
First Battle of Bull Run: July 21, 1861: Important because it was the first full-scale battle of the Civil War. The fierce fight there forced both the North and South to face the sobering reality that the war would be long and bloody.
First Battle of Bull Run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX7fcK-kpHQ
United States (Union) victory over Confederate forces in Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. The two-day conflict was at that point the bloodiest battle in American history, with more than 23,000 dead and wounded.
Battle of Shiloh: April 6, 1862: Important because the South's defeat at Shiloh ended the Confederacy's hopes of blocking the Union advance into Mississippi and doomed the Confederate military initiative in the West.
Battle of Shiloh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOLwn7Nqfpo
Sherman's March to the Sea was an American Civil War campaign lasting from November 15 to December 21, 1864, in which Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led troops through the Confederate state of Georgia, pillaging the countryside and destroying both military outposts and civilian properties.
Shermans march to the sea: November 15, 1864: Important because it was marked by its objective, to cripple the Confederacy's ability to wage war.
Shermans March to the Sea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyunLLOGIVw
Warren County, MS | May 18 - Jul 4, 1863. Vicksburg's strategic location on the Mississippi River made it a critical win for both the Union and the Confederacy. The Confederate surrender there ensured Union control of the Mississippi River and cleaved the South in two.
Vicksburg campaign: December 29, 1862: Important because Vicksburg's strategic location on the Mississippi River made it a critical win for both the Union and the Confederacy.
Vicksburg Campaign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H10ix9pJ2mk
The Battle of Antietam pitted Union General George McClellan's Army of the Potomac against General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.
Battle of Antietam: September 17, 1862: Important because it was one of the key turning points of the American Civil War
The Battle of Antietam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYQzVSO2JQY
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
Battle of Gettysburg: July 1, 1863: Important because it ended Confederate general Robert E. Lee's ambitious second quest to invade the North and bring the Civil War to a swift end.
The Battle of Gettysburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRyJYCFzwMU
The bullet had entered through Lincoln's left ear and lodged behind his right eye. He was paralyzed and barely breathing. He was carried across Tenth Street, to a boarding-house opposite the theater, but the doctors' best efforts failed. Nine hours later, at 7:22 a.m. on April 15th, Lincoln died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NZLe90ZD2k
Assassination of Lincoln: April 15, 1865: Important because part of a larger conspiracy intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the federal government.
Assassination of Lincoln
Appomattox County, VA | Apr 9, 1865. Trapped by the Federals near Appomattox Court House, Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union general Ulysses S. Grant, precipitating the capitulation of other Confederate forces and leading to the end of the bloodiest conflict in American history.
Appomattox Court House surrender: April 9, 1865: Important because precipitating the capitulation of other Confederate forces and leading to the end of the bloodiest conflict in American history.
Appomattox Court House surrender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdPta5ft6Ug
