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Cotton gin
the cotton gin was made in 1791 and it was supposed to help lower slavery but instaid it did the opposit it ioncreased the production of slavery -
Mexican war
gave us more land in which we hade to decide if we want it to be free land or slave land -
Fugitive slave act
a law that was passed for slave owners so they can recaptured losed slaves but it also put non-slave people into slavery -
Uncle Toms Cabin
uncle toms cabin was a book made by harret beecher stow an abolishonist durring this time period that saw these things happen. -
Bloody Kansas
people rushed to the state to make it free or slave and because of this people fought each other and riots broke out -
Harrpers farry
John brown a person who hated slavery went to harpers farry to get weponds so he could lead a slave rebelion but before he could he was caught and sentensed to death -
Lincolns election
lincon was elected presedent in 1860 and that as the start of the south seseding the union
