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Invention of the Cotton Gin
The cotton gin is a machine made by the man Eli Whitney. The machine makes separating cotton from it's seed a easy process. In the past slaves were make to do this long a diffcult task with slow production rates. But the intvention of the cotton gin increased cotton production many times over. The invention sent the number of slaves skyrocketing as more southerns needed hands for their increasing plantation operations. -
Missouri Compromise
THis was a compromise in Congress making Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state. This was part of the balancing act between the power of the north and south. Both sides just wanted to avoid more tension then there already was. The compromise was later repelled by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
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Harriet Tubman and the Undergroung Railroad
Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave that returned to slavery many times to free others. She used the help of the Ungderground Railroad to help people. She save a few hundred people. She had a $40,000 price on her head. -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the memoir of runaway slave Frederick Douglass. In the book he explains his life and how slavery affected it and how he escaped. He was one of the very few slaves that were educated. The book helped rally the anti-slavery movement in the north. -
Free-Soil Party
The Free Soil Party was a poltical party from 1848 to 1852. The party was anti-slavery and was mainly full of drop-out from other parties. They wanted the western frontier to remain free. The party fell apart after the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
Compromise of 1850
THe compromise was seris of bills passed to lessen tensions between north and south. In the bill California was declared a free state as while as Washington D.C. New Mexico and Utah would become free or slaveowning by vote. The fugitive slave act would be made more intense and Texas would have to leave New Mexico. Both sides were content with the compromise. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was a stricter version of the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act. The act warrented the return of slaves to their master if the slave had escaped. There were many cases of not just runaway slaves but freemen that were put into slavery based on hear say alone. Slave then had to escape to Canda to find freedom. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slave novel written by housewife Harriet Beecher. She had witnessed slavery and was sympathetic for slaves. In her book she demanded that the U.S. stop being a slave country. She was an abolitionists. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act created the states of Kansas and Nabraska. The act repeled the 1820 compromise. That allowed white men to decide if these states would be free of not through vote. Many people from the pro and anti side of slavery met at a battle ground and violence ensured. Kansas was nicknamed bleeding kansas. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This supreme court case determined that African Americans were not citizens under the constitution. The case was filed by slave Dred Scott who planed to use logic to gain his freedom. The anti-slavery north was in arms about the decision. It was repealed in 1866 by the Civil Rights Act. -
The Election of 1860
The presidential election between Abraham Lincoln and John Brechinridge. Abraham Lincoln won the election. He inherited the country in th terrible time. Almost right after he was elected seven sothern states left the union creating the confederacy. -
The Beginning of the Civil War
The Civil War started officially on April 12th, 1861. Fort summer was attacked and captured by the confederacy. Soon after Lincoln rallies 75,000 men. Robert E. Lee doesn't accept and offer to lead the union army.
