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Invention of the Cotton Gin
This invention is very important becuase it caused slavery to become more valuable and popular in the South. Without the Cotton Gin, slavery may have died out on it's own but, instead it became the fast way to get rich. Also, the Cotton Gin made it so the South produced 3/4 of the world's cotton supply and so their economy relied on slavery. -
Missouri Compromise
This event is very important because I believe it is what officially devided America. Any state entering the Union above 36 degrees latitude was a free-state and any state below was a slave-state. In 1820 our country was virtually cut in half at 36 degrees latitude. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was very important to the anti-slavery movement. The book became a world-wide best seller and exposed the curelty of slavery to people in the North, Europe and many other places. Anti-Slavery movements began to take place in the North and Europe stopped buying cotton from the South. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
This event is very important because it is what caused southern states to succeed from the Union. Lincoln was very anti-slavery and Southern states were sure that the government was going to try to abolish slavery now the Lincoln was President. -
Succession of South Carolina
After LIncoln is elected the first of the Southern States succeeds from the Union. South Carolina paved the way for other Southern states to succeed and openly showed that it would not be part of a slave-free country.
