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Invention of Cotton Gin
The modern mechanical cotton gin was invented in the United States of America in 1793 by Eli Whitney. The cotton Gin was not validated untill 1807.
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Missouri Compromise
the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831 -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a bundle of five different bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free state. -
The Underground Railaod
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses, Helped slaves escape to the North.m -
Kansas and Nebraska act
The Kansas and Nebraska act of 1854 may have been the single most significant event leading to the Civil War. During the time settlers and entrepreneurs wanted to live in the states (territory)
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery Border Ruffian -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott case was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizen.
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John brown's raid on harpers ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin, anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Some say the book helped lay the ground work from the civil war.
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