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Invention of the Cotton Gin
It was used to remove the seeds from the cotton. It increased slavery. It failed in the beginning. -
Underground Railroad
Formed in the 19th century and it reached it height between 1850 & 1860's by the 1850's 100,000 slaves escaped through the underground railroad. this is were i found the information for the underground railroad -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a United States federal statute devised by Henry Clay. It regulated slavery in the country's western territories by not allowing the practice in the former Louisiana Territory, except within the state of Missouri. -
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The Liberator is publish
It was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831 was the first issue . The Liberator, reached thousands of individuals worldwide. The Liberator appeared, with the motto: “Our country is the world – our countrymen are mankind -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
The morning of August 23,1831 rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people. Led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. history. This led to the Civil War. -
Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
On November 24, 1832 the South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification was enacted. The south decided that the tariffs imposed by the federal government were unconstitutional. President Jackson challenged this and the south backed down. -
Wilmont Provisio
It was designed to eliminate slavery in the land. It caused the Mexican war. Soon after the war began president James.k Polk sought to proportionate of $2 million as part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty. -
Compromise of 1850
Divisions over slavery in territory gained in the Mexican-American (1846-48). War were resolved in the Compromise of 1850. Ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. -
Uncle Toms Cabin is published
It was a anti-slavery novel.This novel sold 300,000 copies within three months. Was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862. his is where we found our information -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Was passed by U.S Congress on May 30,1854 It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves weather or not to allow slavery within their borders.The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 may have been the single most significant event leading to the Civil War.Where we find it -
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Bleeding Kansas
It was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery -
Brooks-Sumner event
During his speech called 'The Crime Against Kansas,' Senator Charles sumner called Senator Andrew Butler an i'm becile. Two days later adistant cousin of Butler -Brooks- went to sumner in his senate chamber and tried to teach him a lesson by repeatedly hitting Sumner over the head with a gold- tipped cane. Brooks was fined $300 for the assult. -
Dred Scott Decision
On this day in 1857, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories. Dred Scott was a slave whose owner. The Supreme Court was stacked in favor of the slave states. where we find it -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats.Lincoln and Douglas agreed to debate in seven of the nine Illinois Congressional Districts; the seven where Douglas had not already spoken. -
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Jonh Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
October 16, 1859 John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry.Brown had hopes that the local slave population would join the raid and through the raid’s success weapons would be supplied to slaves and freedom fighters throughout the country; this was not to be. -
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election stated on Nov. 6, 1860, it was Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Secession of Southern States
Since the Civil War began in April, four slave states – Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee – of the top South also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy. The government of the United States (the Union) rejected the claims of secession and considered the Confederacy illegitimate.
