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invention of the cotton gin
The invention of the cotton gin drove the southreners crazy and this was the start of slavery -
Missuori comprimise
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Compromise of 1850
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Uncle toms cabin
Uncle toms cabin is when an author ( Harriet Beecher Stowe ) wrote a book on slavery down south and it had gotten the northner fired up and it kept europe out of the civil war and the southners said it was a lie -
Kansas Nebraska act
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Dred scott decision
Is when dred scott a slave he was living on free land and him and his master and he thought since he was on free territory is he still a slave the court ruled and said that all slaves are property and that they stay slaves ANYWHERE they go this made the northners even more mad And now slavery exsit in the terrritories -
John brown
is when john brown got a whole bunch of men and killed 5 pro slavery men with a knife -
Election of 1860
Lincion won 40 % of he wouldn't have won if the democrat part didn't split