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Invention of the Cotton Gin
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Missouri Compromise
The Northerners wanted to add Missouri as a free state so that there were more free states than slave states. The Southerners wanted Missouri as a slave state so that there were slave states than free states. Missouri entered the Union as a slave state. Maine was seperated from Massachusetts and entered the Union as a free state. Congress drew a line at 36 30 across the remaining Louisiana Territory. Slavery was allowed South of this line and forbidden North of it. -
Compromise of 1850
The 2 main parts of the Compromise of 1850 was that California would become a free state so there would be 16 free states and 15 slave states.Next the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, forcing citizens of the North to help assist with returning runaway slaves -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel to keep Europe out of the Civil War. It turned the people of Europe against the South as they soon realized that all the cotton they were purchasing was a production of slave labor. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This was a law passed by Congress that used popular sovereignity to decide if slavery was an issue or not. Because of this the Republican Party was formed, and if you were a Republican at this time you were opposed to slavery. -
Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision
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John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry
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Election of Lincoln
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Election of 1860
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Attack at Fort Sumter
Most of the Southern states have seceded and formed the Confererate States of America. On April 12th, 1861 the Civil War begins. -
Secession of South Carolina
