Question

part 1: historical timeline
directions: for each event below, research the historical context using class materials, textbooks, maps, and reliable sources.

| the clue (investigate the context) | your answer

1 | in 1619, a privateer ship called the white lion docked at this specific location in virginia with \20 and odd\ africans. |
2 | in 1738, freedom - seekers fled south to spanish florida to establish this first legally sanctioned free black settlement. |
3 | eli whitneys 1793 invention was meant to reduce labor, but it actually made \green seed\ cotton so profitable that slavery expanded. |
4 | this 1831 uprising in southampton county, va, caused a \great panic\ and led to laws banning black people from learning to read. |
5 | in 1849, a woman used the
orth star\ to navigate this secret network of routes and safehouses to reach philadelphia. |
6 | at an 1851 convention, a speaker challenged the idea that women were \delicate\ by asking, \arnt i a woman? |
7 | in 1857, chief justice taney ruled that a specific enslaved man was \property\ and had no standing to sue in federal court. name the case. |
8 | in 1859, an abolitionist group seized a federal arsenal to start a revolt. in which city and state (now west virginia) did this occur? |
9 | this 1863 executive order only applied to states that were \in rebellion,\ leaving enslaved people in \border states\ still in bondage. |

Explanation:

1. This was the first recorded arrival of enslaved Africans in the English colonies that became the US.
2. Fort Mose was the first legally recognized free Black community in what is now the US.
3. The cotton gin's efficiency made cotton farming extremely profitable, increasing demand for enslaved labor.
4. Nat Turner's violent uprising led to harsh restrictive laws against enslaved and free Black people.
5. Harriet Tubman used the North Star to navigate the Underground Railroad, a network aiding freedom-seekers.
6. Sojourner Truth delivered her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the 1851 Akron Women's Rights Convention.
7. The Supreme Court's ruling upheld slavery and denied citizenship to enslaved people.
8. John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an attempt to arm enslaved people and spark a revolt.
9. Lincoln's order only freed enslaved people in Confederate states, not border states that remained in the Union.

Answer:

1. Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia
2. Fort Mose (Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose)
3. Cotton Gin
4. Nat Turner's Rebellion
5. Underground Railroad (Harriet Tubman was the woman)
6. Sojourner Truth (at the Akron Women's Rights Convention)
7. Dred Scott v. Sandford
8. Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia)
9. Emancipation Proclamation