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Invention of Cotton Gin
The cotton gin removed the seeds from the cotton fibers. This made cotton production rise and the need for more slaves rose. This effected the South alot. -
Embargo Act of 1807
The Embargo Act made all exports from U.S.illegal. U.S. and Britain was involved. The Embargo Act was important because it prohibited foreign trade. This event showed an conflict because it weakend the economy. It eventually led to the War of 1812. -
Missouri Compromise
An effort by Congress to solve the issue between the North and the South. The made the 36 30 line saying that any state above this line except Missouri would be a free state. -
Tariff pf Abominations
The North and South was invloved. It raised the tariff on imported goods. The South relied on these goods. Made the South angry this later fueled the Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850
A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides. Admitted California as a free state but allowed newly admitted states to decide on if that wanted slavery or not. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
It was about the fugitive slave laws and intensified the feelings of the abolistionist in the North.It appealed to the emotions of most of the northerners and aroused them aganist slavery as a moral evil and it forced southerners to defend their position on the slavery issue -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Sen. Douglas wanted to divide the territory into the Nebraska Territory and the Kansas Territory; to gain support of the South, he decided slavery could be decided by popular sovereignty -
Bleeding Kansas
a series of violent confrontations invloving anti slavery people and pro slavery people. -
Dred Scott Case
He was a slave in Missouri who went to court to ask for his freedom. He said he was free because his owner lived in a free state for 4 years. Two state courts made 2 opposong decisions so Scott went to the Supreme Court in 1857 but he wasnt considered a citizen so he wasnt granted freedom. -
John Brown's Raid
In 1859, the militant abolitionist John Brown seized the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry. He planned to end slavery by massacring slave owners and freeing their slaves. He was captured and executed -
The Election of 1860
Lincoln was elected. The South was mainly effected. The South and many other states seceded from the Union. -
SC secedes from the Union
Abraham Lincoln became president and South Carolinians were afraid that he would free their slaves. They held a secession convention in Columbia, then moved it to Charleston. Almost everyone voted to secede from the Union or no longer be part of the United States. They signed the Ordiances of Secession. S. C. was the first state to secede from the Union. They did this in order to preserve their way of life. They were trying to hold onto their way of life that was based on slavery. They said stat
