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The invention of the cotton gin
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. -
The Embargo of Act 1807
The goal was to force Britain and France to respect American rights during the Napoleonic Wars. -
The Missouri Cimpromise
was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819. -
The tariff of abominations
was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States designed to protect industry in the northern United States. -
The Dreds Scott case
The case had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. -
The compromise of 1850
an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. -
Uncles Toms Cabin
was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. -
The Election of 1860.
Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party to power without the support of a single Southern state. -
South Carolina Secedes
was a site of a major political and military importance for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery. -
Johns Brown Raid
His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves in the area.
