Timeline of U.S. History

Flowchart nodes

• Haitian Revolt: This caused slave owners to be more strict towards their slaves

• Attack on Fort Sumter: this attack was the official start of the Civil War

• 1791

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: harshly penalized officials and citizens who helped runaway slaves

• Election of Abraham Lincoln: led to the secession of the Southern States within weeks.

• 1860

• 1860

• 1852

• 1850

• End of the Slave Trade: this was an attempt to stop slavery, which made the South unhapy

• Vesey Revolt: a revolt among slaves in Carolina signaled the discontent of the enslaved

• Ratification of the U.S. Constitution: this constitution united the states into a single country

• Nat Turner's rebellion: a slave rebellion in Virginia, it showed that slaves would go to great lengths to be freed

• U.s.-Mexican War: led to the annexation of Texas as a slave state

• Missouri Crisis: an attempt to balance the Free North and the Slave South.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin: this book revealed the harsh realities of slavery in the South.

• Dred Scott Case: court case ruling that Black Americans could not be US Citizens

• Kansas-Nebraska Act: gave precedence to popular sovereignty, saying these territories could choose between slavery

• Second Great Awakening: made slavery be viewed as inhumane and un-Christian

• Ely Whitney's Cotton Gin: The cotton gin made cotton a profitable crop, which increased slavery

• Harper's Ferry raid: raid for weapons that could be used for a slave revolt

• 1831

• 1788

• 1794

• 1846

• 1807

• 1822

• 1859

• 1801

• 1856

• 1854

• 1819

• 1830's

• Cotton Revolution: the introduction of cotton into the South brought slavery with it