The top list of events related to westward expansion that affected African Americans:
• Harpers Ferry •Missouri Compromise •Compromise of 1850 •Kansas-Nebraska Act •Dred Scott v. Sandford •Fugitive Slave Act •Nat Turner's Rebellion •Bleeding Kansas
The Battle of Harpers Ferry was fought September 12–15, 1862. It was part of the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War. As Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate army invaded Maryland, a portion of his army under Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was sent to capture Harpers Ferry.