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Invention of the Cotton Gin
Cotton gin was a machine that made the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber faster, and easier. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
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Tariff or 1828 & Nullification Crisis
A law that started the U.S. down the road to split between North and South. -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of people who helped escaped slaves find their way to freedom. The people offered shelter and aid to the slaves. -
The Liberator is Plublished
It was the most influential antislavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of U.S. history. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
in 1831 Nat Turner and 6 slaves launched a slave rebellion. They killed 57 whites before Turner was captured and executed. As a result southerners were harder on slaves -
Wilmot Proviso
proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. -
Compromise of 1850
consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. Part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished -
Uncle Toms Cabin is Published
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, that showed the reality of slavery and is generally regarded as of the major causes of the Civil War. -
'Bleeding Kansas'
The name 'Bleeding Kansas' is used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory. Proslavery and free-state settlers went to Kansas to try to influence the decision. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north. -
Brooks-Sumner Event
Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist, with a walking cane in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier -
Dred Scott Decision
United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
was a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
John Browns Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown led a small group to Harper's Ferry, Virginia, which isn now West Virginia.They went on a raid against a federal armory there. They went on an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. -
Election of 1860
Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
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Secession of Southern State
Confederate States of America consisted of the governments of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union. -
Fort Sumter is Fired upon
First shots of the Civil War. 34 hours exchange of artillery fire.
