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Cotton Gin
This machine singlehandedly revolutionized the cotton industry. It allowed for the 50 times the production of cotton, which led to more availability, which led to cheap clothing people wanted, which led to more labor, and that led to the need for more slaves and partially fueling the South’s dependence on slavery -
Missouri Compromise
The compromise stated that Maine shall be a free state and Missouri shall be a slave state, it also prohibited slavery north of the parallel 36°30′ north in the Louisiana Territory which basically defined the border between north and south and where slavery was permited. This caused confusion once the U.S. obtained land beyond the Louisiana Territory, which sparked conflict between the north and south. -
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave that for tenyears went back to the plantations in ordser free slaves. The South feared the fact that she could rebel like this and this brought more attention towards slavery. -
Narrative life of Frederick Douglass an American slave
This book is an account of Frederick Douglass's life as a slave. This book brought people to know about the horrors of slavery and what exactly happens on plantations and to slaves within the city. -
Free-Soil Party
This was a politicala party that was short lived but had influence, it had formed due to rising opposition to slavery and was composed of former whigs and the barnburners. This party later helped form the republican party in 1854, which was the main parrty opposed to slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
This was an attempt to stop conflict between the North and South due to California being battled over. It stated that Fugitive Slave Act was amended, the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished, California entered the Union as a free state, territorial government was created in Utah, and an act was passed settling a boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico that also established a territorial government in New Mexico. -
Fugitve Slave Law
Part of the Missouri Compromise, this law made so that escaped slaves could be captured anywhere in the U.S. This law was eventuallly abused and many free African Americans were taken in as a result,, which led to this law fueling slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
This was the nickname of Kansas during the fight for whether or not it would become a free or slave state. People essaintially went crazy over slavery and then started riots within the state, maany died due to this. -
Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Tom's Cabin
This popular book described the life of a slave who was always kind-hearted while his master basically avused him. This book created the Uncle Tom's stereotype, whch is a slave that ultimatrly accepts his life as a slave -
Kansas-Nebraska Act,1854
This Act left the issue of slavery to popular sovereignty. This means that the people voted on whether a state would be free or slave, this eventually led to Bleeding Kansas. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
This court ruling basically stated that even of an African American was free, he could not be a citizen of the U.S. This sparked much protest over slavery and became one of the factors that the civil war happened -
Election of 1860
This was the election that made Lincoln President. Many in the South were unhappy with this and eventually started rioting everywhere in the South. -
Civil War Begins
The war started when Confederate war ships attacked Fort Sumter. This started the bloodiest war in American History as well as the event that would eventually make all slaves a free man.
