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timeline activity 3
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Crispus Attucks, an escaped slave, is the first person to die in the American Revolution.
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Jean Baptiste Point DuSable decided to build trading post near Lake Michigan, thus becoming the first permanent residdent of the settlement that became Chicago.
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Phillis Wheatley publishes first bookof poetry.
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Vermont is the first state to abolish slavery.
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The Continental Congress forbade slavery in the region northwest of the Ohio River by the Northwest Ordinance
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Slaves revolt in Haiti against the French rulers and slave owners.
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Benjamin Banneker publishes the first almanac by an African-American.
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
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Congress passes the first Fugitive Slave Act.
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The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is founded in New York City.
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United States purchases Louisiana Territory from France
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Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.
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The Missouri Compromise bans slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri.
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The first African-American theater company in the United States, the African Company, is founded in New York.
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In New York, John Brown Russwurm and Samuel Cornish publish the first African American newspaper in the U.S., Freedom's Journal.
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1831-1861: Height of activity for the Undergrond Railroad
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Slave rebellion of Nat Turner.
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Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrisons starts to publish The Liberator, a fiercly anti-slavery newspaper, in Boston.
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Henry Blair is the first African American to receive a patent.
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Frederick Douglass publishes his autobiography, narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.
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Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective leaders of the Underground Railroad.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
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Booker Taliaferro Washington is born.
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Dred Scott case declares that African Americans are not citizens o the U.S., and that congress has noo power to restrict slavery in any federal territory.
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John Brown and 21 followers capture the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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harriet Wilson publishes Our Nig; Or Sketches from the Life of a Free, the first novel by an African American woman.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president.