Partie 1 Flashcards
1619/1620
The 1st slave ship in VA (Puritans)
1776
Independence of the US
1802
Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana from Napoleon for $15 million
1861-1865
Civil War
1865-1876
Reconstruction
after 1808
Slave trade was forbidden
A necessary evil
They thought it wasn’t a good thing but it was a necessary evil.
In the beginning in the 15th century, there were many slaves.
Divided into two regions: North / South
The Capitol of the Confederacy was based in ??????? and the Capitol of the North was in ?????
????? was based in Richmond in Virginia (South) and ??????? in Washington.
1861
The first attack occurred at Fort Sumter (In the Border States, slavery was practiced and even though some wanted to be independent, some didn’t.)
Virginia place of plantation?
Virginia wasn’t a place of plantation: mountains → slavery wasn’t very practiced