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The Invention of the Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney. This invention increase the slave population because it was easier to produce more cotton with this machine. This invention angered the North because they didn't like slavery and wanted to stop the expnasion of it. -
Misouri Compromise
This is one of the major events that led to the Civil War because it expanded slavery into the North which angered the North. The compromise was that the newly admitted state, Missouri would become a slave state while Maine would become a free state. That is when the 36 30 line came to be any state north of this line would be enterd as a free state with the exception of Missouri and states south of it would be slave states. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Were Federal laws that allowed the capture and return of slaves who have escaped within the United States. This act also denied slaves right to a jury trial. The Fugitive Slave act cause more tension between the North and the South because the North found it immoral. -
Publication of Uncle Toms Cabin
An anti slavery book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It showed what slavery was really like and how the slaves actually got treated. The south felt that it oppsed slavery so they wanted to ban the book which created sectionalism. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
This allowed people within these territories to decide for themselves whether or not they allow slaves within their borders.
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dredd Scott was a slave but when his owner had died he was sent to live in illinoise which was a free state. He went to court to sue for his freedom. The court denied Scott the right to sue due to him still technically being a slave and slaves don't have rights. -
John Brown Harpers Ferry
John Brown was an abolitionist who believed that force was the only way to get freedom. He trys to start a slave rebellion Virginia by seizing weapons from the federal armory at Harpers Ferry.
