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The Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney creates the cotton gin, it revolutionized the production of cotton by speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton.By the 19th century cotton had become America’s leading export. This offered southern planters a reason to keep and expand slavery. (http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney) -
Missouri Compromise
It was an effort by congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. A compromise bill was worked out with Missouri admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state, except for Missouri, slavery was to be excluded from the Louisiana Purchase lands. (http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise) -
Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
Was purposely drafted to make Andrew Jackson appear as a free trade advocate in the South and as a protectionist in the North. South Carolina declared the Tariff of 1828 to be null and void and not binding on the state or its citizens. It ensued after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 therefore the tariff was null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
He was a black american slave who led the only effective slave rebellion spreading terror throughout the south, he set off a new wave of oppressive legislation stopped the education movement and assembly of slaves also he stiffened pro slavery and anti abolitionist convictions that persisted in that region until the American Civil War.
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Under Ground Railroad
Began around 1850, it was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century slaves in the U.S in efforts to escape to free states with the help of abolitionists and allies who were willing to help their cause.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book that was published on March 20, 1852, by a woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book was widely read, was even read by Abraham Lincoln. While living in Cincinnati, Stowe encountered fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad. After she had wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws.
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Wilmot Proviso
Was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War. Interested in northern free labor more than in the plight of southern slaves, Wilmot had been an administration loyalist until he presented his proviso. That inspired such politicians of the time as James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, and John C. Calhoun to formulate their own plans for dealing with slavery as the nation expanded its territory.
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Fort Sumter Gets Fired on
Famous for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War, When President Abraham Lincoln had announced plans to resupply the fort Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter. After a 34hr exchange of artillery fire, Anderson surrendered the fort, confederate troops then occupied Fort Sumter for nearly four years.
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1850 Compromise
It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former’s favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves.
(http://www.history.com/topics/compromise-of-1850)
