Timeline Events Flashcards
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Enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas
1619
Dutch traders brought over 20 enslaved africans
taken from a Spanish ship to the colony of
Jamestown, Virginia.
French Indian War
A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763
Revolutionary War
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.
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
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.
Ratification of the Constitution
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.
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
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.
Invention of the Cotton Gin
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.
The Louisiana Purchase
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.
The Haitian Revolution
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.
Lewis and Clark expeditions
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.
End of the Atlantic Slave trade
Congress ended this event March 2, 1807.
This prevented the importation of slaves into any place under
rule of the United States.
Missouri Compromise
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.
Indian Removal Act
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.
Nate turners rebellion
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.
Nullification Crisis
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.
The Amistad Rebellion
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.
The Mexican American War
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.
The Compromise of 1850
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.
Fugitive Slave Act
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.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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.
Caning of Charles Sumner
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.
John Browns Raid
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.
Abraham Lincoln elected for President
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.
South Carolina secedes
On December 20, 1860 South Carolina became
the first slave state in the south to declare it had
seceded from the United States
