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invention of cotton gin
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One inadvertent result of the cotton gin’s success, however, was that it helped strengthen slavery in the South. Although the cotton gin made cotton processing less labor-intensive, it helped planters earn greater profits, prompting them to grow larger crops, which in turn required more people. -
Missouri Compromise
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After the Senate and the House passed different bills and deadlock threatened, a compromise bill was worked out with the following provisions: (1) Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine (formerly part of Massachusetts) as free, and (2) except for Missouri, slavery was to be excluded from the Louisiana Purchase lands north of latitude 36°30′.the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, -
nat turners rebellion
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Nathanial “Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was a black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. history. Spreading terror throughout the white South, his action set off a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves and stiffened proslavery, antiabolitionist convictions that persisted in that region until the American Civil War (1861–65). -
tariff of 1828 nullification crisis
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In 1828, Congress passed a high protective tariff that infuriated the southern states because they felt it only benefited the industrialized north.his tariff benefited American producers of cloth — mostly in the north.The south Carolina ordinance of nullification was enacted into law on November 24, 1832. -
Compromise of 1850
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Divisions over slavery in territory gained in the Mexican-American (1846-48). War were resolved in the Compromise of 1850. -
uncle toms cabin is published
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While living in Cincinnati, Stowe encountered fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad. Later, she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws. The book had a major influence on the way the American public viewed slavery. The book established Stowe’s reputation as a woman of letters.In 1863, when Lincoln announced the end of slavery, she danced in the streets. Stowe continued to write throughout her life and died in 1896. -
underground railroad
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The Underground Railroad was the term used to describe a network of persons who helped escaped slaves on their way to freedom in the northern states or Canada.The most active of the Railroad workers were northern free blacks, who had little or no support from white abolitionists. The most famous “conductor,” an escaped slave named Harriet Tubman, reportedly made nineteen return trips to the South; she helped some three hundred slaves escape. -
Bleeding kansas
[click here](history.com) Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. Violence soon erupted as both factions fought for control. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
[click here](www.history.com) It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
Dred Scott Decision
[click here](www.history.com) The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision on Sanford v. Dred Scott, a case that intensified national divisions over the issue of slavery.In 1834, Dred Scott, a slave, had been taken to Illinois, a free state, and then Wisconsin territory, where the Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibited slavery. -
Election of 1860
[click here](www.history.com) The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election. Abraham Lincoln of the Republican party won the United States Presidential Election in 1860. -
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Secession of Southern States
[click here](www.history.com) the secession of Southern States led to the establishment of the Confederacy and ultimately the Civil War. It was the most serious secession movement in the United States and was defeated when the Union armies defeated the Confederate armies in the Civil War, 1861-65.
