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the invention of the cotton gin
1.Eli Whitney
2.A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds
3.the cotton gin happenned in the south
4.it happenned in 1794
5.it is important because it bousted the economy
6.the conflict was beacause the cotton gin increased the slaves number and the north did not like it. -
the tariff of abominations
- John Quincy Adams 2.Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States 3.south 4.1828 5.it is important because it was designed to protect industry in the northern United States
- it was labeled the Tariff of Abominations by its southern detractors because of the effects it had on the antebellum Southern economy.
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Bleeding kansas
- anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery and John Brown The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 called for "popular sovereignty"—that is, the decision about slavery was to be made by the settlers. It would be decided by votes—or more exactly which side had more votes counted by officials. At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would allow or outlaw slavery, and thus enter the Union as a slave state or a free state. Pro-slavery forces said every settler had the right to br
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the election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. The United States had been divided during the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. President John C. Breckenridge and president abraham lincoln were involved. http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.asp
