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- September 17, 1787
The US Constitution
was ratified.
- !791-!804
The
Haitian
Revolt.
- 1794
Eli
Whitney
created
the
cotton
gin
which
sped
up
the
process
of
removing
seeds
from
cotton
fiber.
- March 2, 1807
End of
International
slave trade-
Congress
abolishes the
African slave
trade.
- May 1822
The Vesey
Revolt
expressed
veiws of
equality.
- August 1831
Nat Turner led a
group of
enslaved and
free black men
in a rebellion.
- 1846-1848
Mexican
American
War- first US
armed
conflict
fought on
foreign soil.
- September 18, 1850
Fugitive Slave Act of
1850- It allowed the
capture and return o
fugitive slaves to their
rightful owners with the
territories of the US.
- March 20, 1852
Uncle Tom's Cabin-
Harriet Beecher
Stowe wrote the
anti-slavery book. It
was a major
influence on the way
Americans viewed
slavery.
- 1854
Kansas-Nebraska
Act- said that new
states north of the
boundary line could
vote on whether or
not they want
slavery.
- March 1857
Dred Scott Case-
incensed
abolitionists and
heightened
North-South
tensions.
- October 16-18, 1859
Haper's Ferry Raid-
planned to establish an
independent stronghold
of freed slaves in the
mountains of Maryland
and Virginia.
- 1860
Abrham
Lincoln-
first
Republican
to
win
prsidency.
- 1861-1865
Attack on Fort
Sumter- site of
first shots of
the civil war.
- Cotton Revolution
- Missouri Crisis
- 1800s
Second
Great
Awakening-
consisted
mostly
of
camp
meetings
of
preaching.