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Invention of Cotton Gin
A machine that sped up the process of removing seeds from the cotton, making production much faster. -
Fugitive Slave Law
Federal law stating that slaves running away into another territory or state, must be returned to their former territory or state. -
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The Events of the Civil War
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Missouri Compromise
Legislation passed so that new states applying to be in the United states, were accepted as a free state if above or as a slave state if below the 36°30′ parallel. -
Personal Liberty Laws
Laws created by the Northern States to counteract the Fugitive Slaves Acts, and usually provided trial by jury, and acts combating illegal seizures or perjury regarding slaves. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Slave rebellion that took place in Southampton Country, Virginia where 55-65 were killed, at least 51 being white. -
The Amistad
A spanish ship which had gotten overtaken by the African Captives on the ship, but they were lead by the few spanish to the north, but the Americans had already banned the slave trade -
Secession
Many northerners saw themselves as political victims of conspiracies between slaveholders and western expansionists. Newspaper editors began demanding separation from the south. -
Filibustering Expeditions
someone who engages in an (at least nominally) unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country or territory to foment or support a revolution -
Compromise of 1850
A package of 5 separate bills passed by Congress that caused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the obtained territories in the Mexican-American War -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Legislation that created the Nebraska and Kansas territories, and undid the Missouri Compromise, as new states could decide whenever to be free or a slave state. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War. -
Republican Party
Wanted to abolish slavery; consisted of African American slaves, businessmen, protestants -
Bleeding Kansas
Border war is a series of conflicts which emerged from disagreements over political ideas. -
Dred Scott Case
A case to which the supreme ruled that both free and enslaved African Americans were not considered citizens of the United States or petition for their freedom in court. -
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Series of seven debates between Lincoln and Douglas trying to convince the Illinois General Assembly to vote for them -
Harper's Ferry
Effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln had received more popular votes in the United States than any of the other candidates and had won a majority of the electoral votes. -
Crittenden Compromise
John C. Crittenden introduced an unsuccessful proposal to make slavery unconstitutional in the constitution. -
Fire-Eaters
Southern democrats that were pro-slavery, that encouraged Southern States secession into a new nation.
