Timeline Events

Question 1

Enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas

Answer 1

1619
Dutch traders brought over 20 enslaved africans
taken from a Spanish ship to the colony of
Jamestown, Virginia.

Question 2

French Indian War

Answer 2

A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763

Question 3

Revolutionary War

Answer 3

fought through April 19, 1775 until September 3, 1783
battle started because the U.S. was trying to gain complete Independence from Britain.
In the end the U.S. ended up receiving complete
independence from Britain, peace from Paris,
and expansion for new land.

Question 4

Signing of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 4

declared that the United States was its own independent country from Britain. This document signed in 1776 was written by Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston,Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Roger Sherman.

Question 5

Ratification of the Constitution

Answer 5

1787
happened when nine of the 13 states needed to be ratified. Delaware was the first state to be ratified on December 7, 1787 by an unanimous vote. Massachusetts, Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Maryland, and lastly Rhode Island.

Question 6

Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

Answer 6

1793
was a law that stated that if a slave were to runaway from their owner to the north, their owner could try to capture them and bring them back to the south to work for them again.

Question 7

Invention of the Cotton Gin

Answer 7

1794
The Cotton Gin was a machine that would make the process of manually separating cotton from their seeds a faster, and more efficient process by the machine quickly separating the seeds
from the cotton itself.

Question 8

The Louisiana Purchase

Answer 8

1803
a payment of 15 million dollars to the French to buy the land that they occupied at the time. The land included present day states like Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Minnesota, etc.. Buying this land meant that the United States could
grow and thrive into something bigger such as a Nation.

Question 9

The Haitian Revolution

Answer 9

August 21, 1791 to January 1, 1804.
a successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial rebellion against the French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, present day Haiti.

Question 10

Lewis and Clark expeditions

Answer 10

also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition
May 14, 1804 to September 23, 1806. Two years into Thomas Jeffersons presidency, Jefferson asked the US Congress to fundraise an expedition to go through the Louisiana territory to the Pacific Ocean.

Question 11

End of the Atlantic Slave trade

Answer 11

Congress ended this event March 2, 1807.
This prevented the importation of slaves into any place under
rule of the United States.

Question 12

Missouri Compromise

Answer 12

when Congress wanted to balance out slave states and non-slave states, so they made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state.
Congress also passed the amendment that made a line stating a boundary between free and slave areas called the Mason Dixon Line.

Question 13

Indian Removal Act

Answer 13

The Indian Removal Act on May 28, 1856, signed by President Andrew Jackson, stated that the president could negotiate with the numerous Native Indian tribes about taking their land. The goal of this was to take the Indians land to grow the future United States
of America and remove the Indians to a place to the west side of the Mississippi River.

Question 14

Nate turners rebellion

Answer 14

During August of the year 1831, Nat Turners’ Rebellion or also known as the Southampton Insurrection, took place. One night, Nat turner, a devoted christian who owned enslaved Africans,
saw a solar eclipse and read it as a sign to lead a slave rebellion. He lead a group of about 70 people who were free and enslaved Africans and they all killed white men, women, and children with weapons they welded earlier in preparation for this revolt.
After this rebellion there Nat Turner had to pay the consequence for his choice of actions by being arrested, proven guilty in a court case along with a decent amount of other people who participated
in this event, and were hung.

Question 15

Nullification Crisis

Answer 15

The Nullification Crisis that happened during 1832 to 1833, was a conflict between South Carolina and their federal laws creating a huge outburst by the people of South Carolina by nullifying the tariffs because they refused to pay taxes. The reason why the
people refused to pay taxes was because the Southerners were sending cotton to England, and in exchange, England was sending back manufactured goods. The Government wanted the Southerners to buy other goods from people here in the Americas, so the Government placed a tariff on the manufactured goods to prevent the Southerners from buying from England again. This caused a revolt from the Southerners by them refusing to pay the tariff on the goods, and since the government did not like this they decided to lower the tariffs.

Question 16

The Amistad Rebellion

Answer 16

The Amistad Rebellion in 1841 started with a group of enslaved Africans who were captured on a ship to be illegally brought to the United States. The first stop the sailors made was Cuba to take a quick break and release some of the enslaved Africans from their chains. But, then the Africans got together and killed all of the sailors except two because they didn’t know how to steer the boat and needed help. So after this the enslaved Africans told the sailors to bring them back to Africa, and so during the day the sailors slowly sailed towards the East to Africa, and during the night the sailors would quickly sail West towards America. Eventually the boat ended up on the Coast of New York and Connecticut and the U.S. Navy ended up helping them with their ship. This weird and unusual case went to court even tough there is a rule that states that if you take the effort to bring a ship in, whatever is on the ship is your property. The enslaved Africans side supported by John Quincy Adams in court and the U.S. Navy and sailors representing that the slaves are their property side, came out with a weird result of the enslaved Africans winning and being sent home to Africa.

Question 17

The Mexican American War

Answer 17

The Amistad Rebellion in 1841 started with a group of enslaved Africans who were captured on a ship to be illegally brought to the United States. The first stop the sailors made was Cuba to take a quick break and release some of the enslaved Africans from their chains. But, then the Africans got together and killed all of the sailors except two because they didn’t know how to steer the boat and needed help. So after this the enslaved Africans told the sailors to bring them back to Africa, and so during the day the sailors slowly sailed towards the East to Africa, and during the night the sailors would quickly sail West towards America. Eventually the boat ended up on the Coast of New York and Connecticut and the U.S. Navy ended up helping them with their ship. This weird and unusual case went to court even tough there is a rule that states that if you take the effort to bring a ship in, whatever is on the ship is your property. The enslaved Africans side supported by John Quincy Adams in court and the U.S. Navy and sailors representing that the slaves are their property side, came out with a weird result of the enslaved Africans winning and being sent home to Africa.

Question 18

The Compromise of 1850

Answer 18

The Compromise of 1850 passed by the United States Congress, consisted of 5 bills. The first compromise stated that Texas gave up its ownership of New Mexico, and that government was given permission to help cover the states debt. The second compromise was that California was a free state. The third compromise said that the South had prevented the outlawed slavery, and Mexico and Utah could choose if they wanted to allow slavery within the borders of their states or not. The fourth one said that in the District of Columbia, all slavery was banned. The fifth one created a more on point or strict fugitive slave law.

Question 19

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 19

The Fugitive Slave Act/Law was passed in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850. The law stated that if any slave were to run away to the north the slave owner has the right to bring them back to work for them. They also called this the Bloodhound Law, in the sense that the bloodhounds would go and track the runaway slaves.

Question 20

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 20

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed into
law on May 30th, 1854. This meant that anybody
within Kansas and Nebraska borders could
choose if they wanted to allow slavery or not.

Question 21

Caning of Charles Sumner

Answer 21

The Caning of Charles 
Sumner happened on 
May 22, 1856 in the United 
States Senate. Representative 
Preston Brooks attacked Senator
 Charles Sumner, who at the time
 was an abolitionist, with a walking
 cane because he was mad at Sumner 
for a speech that he gave earlier that 
were criticizing  slaveholders including
 a relative of Brooks.

Question 22

John Browns Raid

Answer 22

John Browns Raid 
happened through
 October 16, 1859 to
 October 18, 1859. The 
goal of the raid was to destroy 
Harper's Ferry in Virginia 
which they very so well did. John 
brown did this by using armed 
forces and gathering a team of
 enslaved and free african americans 
who were abolitionists, and together 
they destroyed Harper's Ferry which 
ended up in victory for them.

Question 23

Abraham Lincoln elected for President

Answer 23

On November 6, 1860,
 the very well known 
Abraham Lincoln was
 elected for President
 of the United States. 
Shortly after the election 
Abraham Lincoln set 
the scene for the American 
Civil War by believing
 that slavery was a wrongful sin.

Question 24

South Carolina secedes

Answer 24

On December 20, 1860 South Carolina became
the first slave state in the south to declare it had
seceded from the United States

Question 25

Abraham Lincoln takes office

Answer 25

Abraham Lincoln the newly elected president,

took office in the White House on March 4, 1861.

Question 26

Shelling of Fort Sumter

Answer 26

The Shelling of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861,
was when Fort Sumter was attacked by the
Confederate States Army. The American Civil
War soon began after the United States surrendered.

Question 27

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 27

The Emancipation Proclamation on September 22,
1862 through Jan 1 of 1863 was an executive order
issued by Abraham Lincoln to the people of the United
States. The document stated that President Lincoln had
said that the people of the United States within the
Confederacy must free all their slaves.

Question 28

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 28

On July 1, 1863 to July 3, 1863 was the Battle
of Gettysburg. The war was between the Confederate
forces of the United States and the Union forces
of the United States during the American
Civil War. The battle was a Union victory stopping
the the leader of the Confederate side, Robert E. Lee,
from invading the North for the second time.

Question 29

The Gettysburg address

Answer 29

The Gettysburg Address presented on
November 19, 1863, was read by the former
United States President, Abraham Lincoln
during the Civil War. This speech followed
four months after the Battle of Gettysburg
and was read at the Soldiers National
Cemetery in honor of those who died during battle.

Question 30

13th Amendment is passed

Answer 30

The Senate first passed the 13th Amendment on January 31, 1865. The 13th Amendment said, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” This amendment abolished slavery for years to come and was finally ratified after all the states approved of it on December 6th, 1865