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Invention of the Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney. This invention revolutionized the prodeuct of cotton. But this invention didnt just have positive outcomes. In the South, due to the invention of the cotton gin slavery had expanded. -
Missouri Compromise
Pro and Anti slavery's tention finnaly boiled up within U.S. congress. Missouri's 1819 requested for admission to the union as a slave state. This request threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave and free states. To keep the balance they created the Missouri Compromise. -
Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave
This autobiograghy of a slaves life, Fredrick Douglass, tells you how the slaves were tortured and abused. It gives you first had on rasicim and steotyping. This book shows the comparasin between slaves and animals, which was how they were treated. It shows how the South was the obtainers of slavery while the North was their free zone. -
Free Soil Party
The free soil party was basically a short-lived political party in the U.S. active in the 1848 and 1854 presidential elections and some state elections. It was opposing slavery and it rooted from the conflict between Ani and Pro slavery. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was a pair of federal laws that allowed masters to capture and return of runaway slaves. This was only valid in the U.S. This authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners. -
Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." She made 19 trips into the South after escaping slavery herself and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. She was so successful there was an award for her capture. -
Compromise of 1850
This was an act made by Henry Clay. It was declaring California as a free State as in no slaves. It was also a package of five bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
This novel was the huge change on how people viewed slavery. It demanded that the United States deliver on the promise of freedom and equality. The novel galvanized the abolition movement and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War. The book call the people to confront race relationships in the U.S. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. The Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to go against the Missouri Compermise. The South strongly supported it while the North was infuriated. -
Dred Scott VS. Sandford
This case was one of the most important event leading up to the Civil War. The case had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, who was a slave that had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. The court argued that no "black" person free or a slave can gain citizenship. -
The Election of 1860
In the election of 1860, Lincoln had won. He was against slavery which mant the South was not found of him. Lincoln agrued against the sread of slavery. Douglass, the other canidate argued that each state has the right to decide if its free or slavery. -
The Beginning of the Civil War
The whole conflict between the North and the South, Pro and Ani slavery has escalated to war. Lincoln had slaves fighting on his side for their freedom as well as seven states. The war took place at Fort Sumter. "The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states." James McPherson.
