Events in American Slavery

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  • Revolutionary War ends

  • Passage of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787

  • Signing of the Constitution

  • Eli Whitney invents the improved Cotton Gin

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812 begins

  • Passage of the Tariff of 1816

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Indian Removal Act

  • William Lloyd Garrison starts The Liberator

  • Trail of Tears begins

  • Nat Turner Rebellion

  • Declaration of Texan Independance

  • Frederick Douglas publishes his first autobiography

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • Gold is discovered in California

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Compromise of 1850

    Various dates in September of 1850

  • Bleeding Kansas begins

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • Birth of the Republican Party

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Attack on Charles Sumner

  • Blake is published by Martin Delany

  • John Brown's Raid

  • Lincoln is elected president

  • South Carolina secedes

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

  • Passage of the 13th Amendment

  • Passage of the 14th Amendment