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The introduction of Slavery into the Colonies

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The introduction of Slavery into the Colonies

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1619

First enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. later in 1600 lifelong race slavery was legally established.

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1787

three out of every five enslaved people would be counted when determining a state's population.added three-fifth of their human property to their state’s population, allowing them to send representatives based in part on the number of people they enslaved.

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1820

allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brought Maine into the Union as a free state. prohibited slavery north of 36° 30 latitude.

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1831

slaves went on killing scores of White people in the county. White people mobilized quickly and, within 48 hours, ended the rebellion. Shocked, Virginia’s state legislature considered ending slavery in the state to provide greater security. later, legislators decided slavery would remain and that their state would continue to play a key role in the domestic slave trade.

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1830s–1860s

Frederick Douglass, a formerly enslaved man, became a leading voice for abolition, publishing his autobiography in 1845. Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad helped enslaved people escape to the North.

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The Fugitive Slave Act & Compromise of 1850

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The Fugitive Slave Act & Compromise of 1850

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1850

a law that provided federal money or bounties to slave catchers. which made it a crime not only to help enslaved people escape but also to fail to help capture them. because of this, they made the Underground Railroad.

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The Fugitive Slave Act & Compromise of 1850

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act & Bleeding Kansas

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act & Bleeding Kansas

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1854

Established popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska, the people in those territories would decide for themselves whether to allow slavery. They fled to Kansas to vote pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers flooded into Kansas to influence the vote on slavery. This resulted in violent clashes, voter fraud, and political chaos.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act & Bleeding Kansas

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1857

question of whether or not Dred Scott gained his freedom. Supreme Court delivered a statement about African Americans in the United States, finding they could never be citizens and that Congress could not get in the way of the expansion of slavery into the territories.

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1859

John Brown and eighteen armed men, both Black and White, attacked the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. he had perpetrated the killings at Pottawatomie. He told other abolitionists of his plan to take Harpers Ferry Armory and initiate a massive slave uprising.

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The Election of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party

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The Election of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party

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1860

Abraham Lincoln, a Republican opposed to slavery’s expansion, was elected president. Southern states seceded from the Union, fearing Lincoln would abolish slavery.

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The Election of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party