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Invention of cotton gin
Cotton gin Eli Whitney's patent. Eli Whitney's original cotton gin patent, was created to help get the seeds out of the cotton in a simpler way. -
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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a place where the run away slaves would go and move up North so they could be free. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was when the state of Missouri passed the bill granting Missouri as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase. -
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The Liberator
The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831. Garrison co-published weekly issues of The Liberator from Boston continuously for 35 years,The newspaper earned nationwide notoriety for its uncompromising advocacy of "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves" in the United States. -
Nat Turner
Nat Turner was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia, that resulted in the deaths of at least 50 white people. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War, but after the war began, President James K. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million as part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty. -
Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent events in the United States involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery elements in Kansas. -
Brooks vs. Sumner
Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner with a cane. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was an avowed Abolitionist and leader of the Republican Party. After the sack of Lawrence, he gave a bitter speech in the Senate called "The Crime Against Kansas." -
Lincoln vs. Douglas Debates
This debate was a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was when Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Secession of Southern States
After the Civil War began, four slave states Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee of the Upper South also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy.
