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Invention of the Cotton Gin
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing more productivity than manual cotton separation.
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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in the United States Congress, involving mostly the regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
Harritet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
After Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery, she returned to slave-holding states many times to help other slaves escape. She took them safely to the northern free states and to Canada. -
Narrative of Fredrick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir on abolition written by the former slave Frederick Douglass. It was written in 1845. -
Free- Soil Party of 1848
The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States taking place in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which stoped a four-year confrontation between the pro-slave states of the South and the free states of the North giving the status of territories taken during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). -
Fugitive Slave Act
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by make the decision through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a lot of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery that took place in the Kansas area and the near-by towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott v. Sandford, was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court decided to state that African Americans whether slave or free could not be American citizens and had no standing to sue in federal court. -
The Election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. -
The Begining of the Civil War
The American Civil War, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States of America after seven Southern slave states decided their secession and formed the Confederate States of America.
