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The embargo Act of 1807
From the opening of hostilities between Great Britain and France in 1803, the United States had found it difficult to steer a neutral course. Hoping to gain economic superiority, both nations attempted to restrict neutral countries from trading with the other. The United States claimed that its official policy of neutrality allowed it to engage in unmolested trade and commerce with both countries. However, although the French and British had committed occasional infractions to American shipping, -
The missouri compromise
In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country. They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. To keep the peace. Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. -
The tariff of abominations
The people who was involved is John C.calhoun, Andrew jackson, John Adams.The tariff sought to protect northern and western agricultural products from competition with foreign imports however, the resulting tax on foreign goods would raise the cost of living in the South and would cut into the profits of New England's industrialists.This was important cause the north could produce a lot of goods to the south. -
The compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate. Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. -
Bleeding kansas
This involved anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian". In 1854 the kansas-Nebraaska Act overturn the missouri compromise's use of latitude as the Boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereighty decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free slave or a slave state. This is imortant because you see the issue of slavery is starting to spread and people are becoming more aware of whats happning. -
The kansas-Nebraska act
Stephen Douglas was involved in this act.Until the area was organized as a territory, settlers would not move there because they could not legally hold a claim on the land. The southern states' representatives in Congress were in no hurry to permit a Nebraska territory because the land lay north of the 36°30' parallel where slavery had been outlawed by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Just when things between the north and south were in an uneasy balance, Kansas and Nebraska opened fresh wounds. -
The Dred Scott Case
Cite In March 1857, in one of the most controversial events preceding the American Civil War (1861-65), the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford. 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. Scott argued that his time spent in these locations entitled him to emancipation. In his decision. -
John brown's Raid
John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of harper's Ferry, Virgina. 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 and move south along the Appalachian Mountains, attracting slaves to his cause. It consisted of an armory, arsenal, and engine house. He then sent a patrol out into the country to contact slaves, collected several hostages. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln , John.C and Breckinridge was involved in the presidental election of 1860. Lincoln end up winning the nomation. This happen on November 6,1860.The election of 1860 was important cause far reaching significance. When He became president the slave onwers in the south was rebeling because Lincoln was agaisnt slavery. -
The invention of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. It increase the needs for slaves cause it made seprate the seeds from cotton. It was mainly used in the south cause thats where it was being produce.The cotton gin was made on November 6,1860. It was important because it produce cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.Also, his invention offered Southern planters a justification to maintain and expand slavery even as a growing number of Americans supported its abolition. -
South Carolina secedes from Union
Secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the American Civil War, comprises the series of events that began on December 20, 1860, and extended through June 8 of the next year when eleven states in the Lower and Upper South severed their ties with the Union. The first seven seceding states of the Lower South set up a provisional government at Montgomery, Alabama. After hostilities began at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, the border states of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee.
