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First Slaves in America
Start of Slave culture -
Invention of Cotton Gin
Cotton Gin allowed southerners to grind out cotton like never before so slavery increased and so did the hate of it -
Industrial Revolution
Northerners held much power and made most goods, southerners resented this -
Free slaves
Free African Americans defied what southerners said and did -
Tariff on Goods from Europe
Southerners had to buy more things from north -
Missouri Compromise
Defines were slave states are and keeps fragile balance, if broken the it is bad -
New England Anti-Slavery Society
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Frederick Douglas
Escaped slave Douglas tells of horrors of slavery to northerners -
Free Soil Party
A new soon to be republican anti-slavery party -
Texas Annexation
Another slave state is added and tensions between north and south increase -
Mexican-American War
More states are added and more conflict to which side they will ally with, slave or industrial? -
PERSIA
Political, Economic, Religious, Social, International, Artistic -
Fugitive Slave Act
Makes northerners take slaves back to south, they hate this and despise south more -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Book about slave life, appalled Northerners -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fighting breaks out on if Kansas will be free or slave -
Election of 1856
Southerners were getting nervous about the Norths influence as the against slavery Republicans won 1/3 of the popular vote without any southern support -
Dred Scott Case
Supreme Court rules that outlawing slavery is illegal -
Harpers Ferry
John Brown attacks an armory to start a slave rebellion, South is appalled and think that northerners will take to violence -
Execution of John Brown
Brown was a freedom fighter and was praised by the North. The south on the other hand was shocked and thought that Northerners were now on a mission to destroy slavery. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln is elected with no southern support, southerners feel powerless in government -
South Secedes
The southern states break away and form the Confederate States of America, we are now at the brink -
Complications in Seceding
South began to seize forts and Abraham Lincoln was split between war or letting the south be a free nation. Union didn't except the seceding overall. -
Fort Sumter Bombardment
South takes Sumter by force after they refuse to give up. South wanted Sumter because it controlled a waterway. 2 men died. -
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Civil War
North declares war after Sumter is attacked. Civil war lasts 5 years with 620,000 deaths on the field. North wins.