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Northern States Abolish Slavery
Between 1774 and 1804, all of the northern states abolished slavery, but the so-called “peculiar institution” remained absolutely vital to the South. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri admitted as slave state . Slavery barred in other areas of Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30'N. -
Slave Markets in Fairfax, VA
In Fairfax County Virginia, a major source of income for residents came from selling or hiring out their excess slaves. Slave markets were run by Joseph Bruin at the West End and by Alexander Grigsby at Centreville. -
US Census
United States Census for a John Adams at the same location as John Q. Adams from the 1820 Census located in the 1st Ward of Washington City show -
John Quincy Adams Inauguration
John Quincy Adams came to the House in 1830 and presented antislavery petition that first year. He acted here only because his Massachusetts constituents asked him to do so. Initially, he thought no more of the abolitionists' work as Congressmen than he had as president. It could only bring the country "to ill-will. To heartburning mutual hatred without accomplishing anything else. -
Nat Turner's Slave Revolt
Nat Turners rebellion (Southampton Insurrection) was a slave uprising in Virginia in 1831. Slaves killed anywhere between 55 and 65 white men and women. About 56 slaves were executed by the state of Virginia and anywhere from 100 to 200 were killed by white militias. This slave revolt led to laws prohibiting slaves to learn to read and write or to gather at assemblies such as church without a white Priest at the mass. -
Josiah Wedgwood creates Am I Not a Man and a Brother?
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Richard Caton Woodville Creates War News Frim Mexico
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Harriet Beecher Stowe writes "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act pened all new territories to slavery by asserting the rule of popular sovereignty over congressional edict, leading pro- and anti-slavery forces to battle it out (with much bloodshed) in the new state of Kansas. -
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Democrat James Buchanan becomes President; John C. Breckinridge, VP
On slavery he favored popular sovereignty and choice by state constitutions. He denied the right of states to secede -
Dred Scott Case
Scott argued that his time spent in these locations entitled him to emancipation. In his decision, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, a staunch supporter of slavery, disagreed: The court found that no black, free or slave, could claim U.S. citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom. The Dred Scott decision incensed abolitionists and heightened North-South tensions, which would erupt in war just three years later. -
Harpers Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown with 21 men seized U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry (then Virginia) U.S. Marines captured raiders, killing several. Brown was hanged for treason by Virginia Dec. 2. -
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Civil War
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Amendment XIII passes in the House
Slavery abolished. -
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Reconstruction Period
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Amendment XIV
Former slaves received the rights of citizenship and the “equal protection” of the Constitution . -
Amendment XV
Former slaves received the right to vote. -
Emma Marie Cadawalder-Guild Crafts Free
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George Inness Paints An Old Roadway
