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Invention of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, this machine changed the production of cotton by speeding the way of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
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Missouri Compromise
Years leading up to the Missouri Compromise, that occurred in 1820, there was strain between pro-slavery and anti-slavery, fractions in the U.S congress and across the country. Then in 1819 Missouri requested for admission to the union as slave state which upset the balance between slave states and free states. Congress wanted to keep the peace so they arranged a two part compromise granting Missouri's request but, also letting Maine be a free state.
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Secession Of Southern States
South Carolina succeeded after the election of Abram Lincoln. Southern States secession with the election of Abram Lincoln because republican. Secession was a major overreaction political setback.
Republican party was planning war against slavery, once they take office.
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The Liberator Is Published
The liberator was the weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garcin in Boston. The first issued liberator motto was " our country is the world, our country man are mankind." -
Nat Turners Rebellion
A black slave who lead the first effective slave rebellion in U.S history.
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Underground Railroad
The underground railroad was a place where slaves escape enslavement. They were escaping the boarders of Kentucky Virginia and Maryland. Conductors guided the slaves to hiding places this included private homes, churches and school houses. These hiding places were called stations safe houses and deposits the people hosting were stationsmasters. The trails were Ohio to Indiana and Iowa many headed north through Pennsylvania to New England or through Detroit the final destination was in Canada. -
Tariff of 1828 and Nullification Crisis
The tariff made it possible for the U.S constitution and the first peace of legislation to ever be put in place my congress passed by July 4, 1789. The tariff provided a place for the federal government and protected manufacturers against low cost imports. -
Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso was made to estimate slavery within the land, the reason why they had this design was result of the mexican war. After the war president James K Polk brought foward a two million dollar to negotiate the terms of the tready. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay came up with a bunch of solutions on January 29 th 1850, He was trying to make a compromise by doing so.He trying avoid crisis between north and south .According to the compromise of 1850 the slave act and trading was abolished in Washington D.C -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Uncle Tom published a book, he sold around 300,000 thousdand copies. The book is about slaves, and the life of slaves also about the slaves owners and how they felt about having slaves. -
Bleeding Kansas
Civil war in the U.S fought between pro slavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas . -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
Kansas - Nebraska Act was a act passed that allows those in the areas of Kansas - Nebraska to deiced if weather not they wanted slaves in this area. This act was a repeal from the former act called the compromise of 1820 which stated that slaves were prohibited north of the latitude 36,30
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Brooks - Sumner Event
What was called the canning of Charles sumner was a result of an attack on the senate when representative Preston brooks sumner abolition with a walking cane in retaliations for a speech given by Sumner day earlier -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave who situated in a free state terriorty. African Americans would never be an American citizen. Dred was a slave who was owned by John Emerson of Missouri. Emerson took Dred from Missouri which was a slave state, to to Illinois. -
Lincoln - Douglas Debates :
Stephan Douglas battled Abraham Lincoln face -face debates around the states . these debates were held at seven different locations.
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John brown raid on herpers ferry
John led a group of 18 into Herpers Ferry , Virginia. His plan was to start a major slave rebellion in the south. his plan didn't go exactly as planned he didn't succeed to depths then decide between the north and south -
Election of 1860
The demarcates met in South Carolina, to select he president in the upcoming election. Northern Demarcates felt as if Stephan Douglas had a better chance in defeating the black republic. -
Fort Sumter is fired upon
Confederates surrounded Fort sumeter and opened fire, major Robert Anderson commander-surrender the fort.
