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| 1775 | Philadelphia Quakers organize America's first antislavery society. |
| 1776–83 | English colonies' War for Independence against Great Britain ends with the formation of the United States. |
| 1788 | The U.S. Constitution is ratified, providing legal protection to slaveowners. |
| 1793 | Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin, which will dramatically increase Southern cotton production. |
| 1803 | President Thomas Jefferson purchases the Louisiana Territory from France. |
| 1816 | The American Colonization Society is formed with the idea of settling free blacks back in Africa. |
| 1820 | Congress passes the Missouri Compromise, which maintains the balance between slave and free states in the Union. |
| 1828 | Congress passes the so-called "Tariff of Abominations" over the objections of Southern states. |
| 1831 | Slave Nat Turner leads a violent slave rebellion in Virginia. |
| 1832–33 | The "Nullification Crisis" in South Carolina ends after tariffs on foreign goods are lowered. |
| 1833 | The Female Anti-Slavery Society and the American Anti-Slavery Society are founded. |
| 1837 | Abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy is... |
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