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Invention of cotton gin
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, leading up to the civil war. It increased in slaves. -
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the civil war
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Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise
Tensions rose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S congress and across the country. -
Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
Andrew Jackson was elected as president of the United States because the American people saw him as the " everyman ". His leadership during the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 gave him respect and wealthy buissness man. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat tried convicted and hanged 55 - 65 whites killed in rebellion , 100 - 200 blacks killed in aftermath. -
The Liberator is published
The Liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts. Garrison was a journalistic crusader who advocated the immediate emancipation of all slaves and gained a national reputation for being one of the most radical of American abolitionists.
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Wilmont Proviso
Congressman David Wilmot first introduced the proviso in the United States House of Representatives on August 8, 1846, as a rider on a $2,000,000 appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican–American War (this was only three months into the two-year war -
Underground railroad
People who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, An estimate, 100,000 slaves escaped from bondage in the South between 1810 and 1850. -
Uncle Toms's Cabin is published
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats.The issues they discussed were not only critical importance to the sectional conflict over slavery and states’ rights but also touched deeper questions that would continue to influence political discourse. -
John Brown's raid on Harper's ferry
John Brown led a small group on a raid against a federal armory in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.
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Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected, he was the first Republican to win presidency. The three other candidates are Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote. Lincoln argued against the spread of slavery.
