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Invention of Cotton Gin
The invention of the cotton gin increased the need for slavery. If the cotton gin wasn't invented slavery might have dissapeared altogether. -
Missouri Compromise
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Compromise of 1850
California wanted to become a state. Should it be a free state or Slave state? California is added as a free state but, as a compromise if a slave escapes up North they most be returned to their owner. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This book showed the horrible nature of slavery and what really happened. It kept Europe out of the civil war becaue they previously had backed the south. They didn't supporrt slavery. The cotton industry also started to collapse with the loss of Europe' s business. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision
Dred Scott thought that since he was living in a free state that he was a free man. The Suupreme Court decision was that even though he was in a free state, he is still property of this owner. That means he was still a slave. This now alowed slavery everywhere. -
Lincoln-Duglass Debate
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Jonh's Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
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Election of Lincoln
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Secession of South Carolina
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Attack on Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter is an American fort. South carolina is it's own country now and doesn't want American troops in there land. They attack the Americans and force their surrender.
