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Cotton gin
Eli Whitteny invented the cotton gin in 1793. It was hard for the farmers to keep slaves when they stopped growing tobacco. when the cotton gin was brought to the south the slaves were demaded to come back and work for them. the cotton gin could produce 50lbs a day. The south created 75% of the worlds cotton also if the north attacked the them the english industries would drop. -
westward Expansion
Slavery in the Western Territories. To many nineteenth-century Americans, the expansion of slavery into Western territories caused a great deal of controversy. Since the drafting of the Constitution in 1787, the North and the South had grown further apart in terms of economy and soceity -
The Missori Comprimise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
Nat Turners Slave Rebellion
This Stunned the nation. The paranoia shot off the scale 50 dead don't know how many tomorrow. Turner and his men launch a slave rebllion marching home to home killing every white person they met -
Uncle toms cabin
A novel, first published serially, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; it paints a grim picture of life under slavery. The title character is a pious, passive slave, who is eventually beaten to death by the overseer Simon Legree. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was around 1854. Douglas felt he needed to remove the natives to expand. He needed Nebraska to cooperate with them. There was a lot of violence during this event brought by Douglas when removing the natives. There was an argument over the slavery forces and also who would control this land. john brown and his sons murdered 5 pro-slavery settlers. -
Abraham Lincoln
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freed all slaves in areas still in rebellion against the federal government. Delivered soon after the Union victory at the battle of Antietam, it motivated the Northern war effort and gave the war a higher purpose.
