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The Invention of the Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was created by a man named Eli Whitney. This invention greatly advanced the production of cotton in all of the United states. -
The Missouri Compromise
The united states government tried to compromise with missouri about the topic of slavery. They did this because slavery was such a big issue it was tearing the country apart. -
Free Soil Party
The free soil party was a political party created in 1848 and ended in 1852. This political party was founded in the state of New York, this party really made an impact on showing the importance that slavery had. -
The Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was an attempt to save the realtionship between the North and South States. This was yet another compromised that was created to stop the issues of slavery. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This act was passed by the united states congress on september 18, 1850. This act enabled that any slave who had ran away once found would have to be returned to their owners. This caused a lot of contriversy amoust the states. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act,
This act was created to allow people who lived within the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves if they wanted slavery in their boundries or not. It was passed by the congress of the untied states. -
Bleeding Kansas
This is a term that is used to describe a very dangerous and violet time when the settling of kansas was occuring. -
Dred Scott V. Standford
This was a court case that went all the way to the Supreme court agruing if African Americans should be able to hold citizenship and the court finally agreed that if they were slaves or not they would not be considered citizens -
The election of 1860
This election was won by the replublican Abraham Lincoln. The men running were Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas. -
The begginning of the Civil War
This war began on April 12th 1861 and did not end until April 9th 1865. This war is now known as our bloodest war. Many reasons were at fault for this war some of those being: slavery of course being one of the biggest, the rights that some states had, another is all of the compromises not following what had been promised.
