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Invention of Cotton Gin
The cotton gin increase the desire for slave labor by making the growth of cotton in mass quantaties much more profitable. -
Missouri Compromise
This was when Missouri was accepted as a slave state, Maine was created as a free state, and the 36-30 line was created. -
Compromise of 1850
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Uncle Tom's cabin
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Dred Scott
The decision to not only make slavery legal in all of the United States, but also allow it to spread West led Dred Scott to go to the Supreme court asking for his freedom. -
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Lincoln-Douglas debates
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John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
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Lincolns Election
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Attack on Fort Sumter
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Secession of South Carolina
South Carolina was the first to secede from the Union.
