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William Lowndes Yancey was born
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William's father dies
William's father dies of yellow fever. -
He moves to New York
His step dad moved him and his family to Troy, New York. -
William gets married
William Yancey marries Sarah Caroline Earl. -
Slaves are poisoned
After his neighbor asked for favors that he couldn't return his neighbor, as revenge, poisoned his water. Luckily he nor his wife drank any water, however, his slaves did drink it killing two and disabling most. This made all the farming come to a stop. Soon almost all income stopped making him poor. -
William moves to Alabama
William moves to Alabama after schooling in the north. He decides he would rather be in the south. -
Yancey is sentenced to a year in jail.
When William and his new wife, Sarah Caroline, went to South Caroline a family dispute started. In the end William killed Sarah's uncle and was fined $1,500 and sent to a year of prison after being found guilty of manslaughter. -
He resumed the study of law.
After taking a long break from studying law William Yancey starts to study law again. -
William is elected into the U.S. Congress
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Yancey urged the state of Alabama to have a meeting.
Yancey, a proud democrat, wanted everyone in the state of Alabama to vote for the Democratic candidate.So he organized a state-wide meeting to show everyone the pros of the democratic candidate being elected as president. -
William's letter to Congress is finally published
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State Constituitional Convention
Yancey organized the State Constitutional Convention that met in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Alabama Constitution Convention pass the Ordinance of Secession
Yancey was the main writer of the Ordinance of Secession passed by the Alabama Constitution Convention. -
The Civil War Begins
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Yancey is elected as the chairman on a voyage to Europe
Yancey is elected to present the plan of the Confederacy. The plan is to ask the main European powers for money. They are reject and the idea of the Confederacy is almost impossible. -
Yancey is elected to the first Confederate States senate
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Vicksburg Falls
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Gettysburg
General Lee is defeated. -
William Lowndes Yancey dies
He died of a kidney disease in Montgomery, Alabama, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetary. -
Atlanta, Georgia is burned
