This document outlines the history of slavery in the United States from the Declaration of Independence to the Civil Rights movement. It discusses key events like the First Great Awakening, the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, states abolishing slavery in the late 18th century, the Civil War and the 13th and 14th Amendments abolishing and restricting slavery, and the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s-60s leading to advances under Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. The document covers the geographic spread and economic role of slavery over time from the northern to southern states.

1. Slavery in the United
States

2.  Declaration of independence
(Thomas Jefferson)
 First Great Awakening
(movement of the church)
 Uncle Tom s Cabin

3.  Slavery abolished by law
 Vermont (1777), Massachusetts (1780),
New Hampshire (1783)
 Abolished over a long period of time
 Pensylvania (1780), Connecticut (1784),
Rhode Island (1784), New York (1799),
New Jersey (1804)

4.  Lord Dunmore – Battle of Great Bridge
(1775)
 Border states
 Slaves can have their own property

5.  Liberation war
 Reconstruction
 upturn - Better farming methods

6.  “Spanish Lousiana“
 Plantation farming
 Stricter slave laws
 Gap between rich and poor

7.  Carry off the slaves
 Deep south
 Capital city of trade - New Orleans
 Import of slaves prohibited
 Upper and lower south
 New products

9.  Civil war 1861
 New articles in the constitution
 13th article
 14th article

10.  Many bloody riots
 Underground Railroad
 Abolitionists
 (William Lloyd Garrison, John Greeenleaf
Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Frederick Douglass)

11.  Enforcement of the laws
 Black code
 Civil rights movement 1950s to 1960s
 Lyndon B. Johnson
 Martin Luther King
 Cultural imprinting