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Invention of Cotton Gin
Cotton
Eli Whitney created a more efficient way to produce more cotton. It was supposed to be a good thing right? No. The cotton gin made people create bigger crops and then buy more slaves -
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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by the 19th century enslaved African people. They di dit to get into the free states of the north and escape the slave south. -
Missouri Comprimise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
The tariff of 1828 & the nulification crisis
In 1828, Congress passed a high protective tariff that infuriated the southern states because they felt it only benefited the industrialized north.Calhoun had supported the Tariff of 1816, but he realized that if he were to have a political future in South Carolina, he would need to rethink his position. The South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification was enacted into law on November 24, 1832. -
The Liberator is Published
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat TurneerNat Turner's Rebellion also known as the Southampton Insurrection was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. The rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55-65 people. It was the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South. -
The Wilmot Proviso
The wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acuired as a result of the Mexican War.Soon after the war began, President Polk sought the appropration of 2 million dollars as a part of the bill to negotiate the terms of the treaty. -
The compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.This 1854 bill to organize western territories became part of the political whirlwind of sectionalism and railroad building, splitting two major political parties and helping to create another, as well as worsening North-South relations.On January 4, 1854, Stephen A. Douglas, wanting to ensure a northern transcontinen -
Bleeding kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. Abolitionist John Brown led anti-slavery fighters in Kansas before his famed raid on Harpers Ferry.Said to have been coined by Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, the label “Bleeding Kansas” was first fixed on that strife-ridden territory by antislavery publicists. The opening of the Kansas and Nebraska territories in 1854 under the principle of popular sovereignty provoked a protrac -
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The debates were known as the greatest debates of 1858.It was a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Abe was the running Republican canidate from Illinois and Douglas was the Democratic canidate for United Sates Senate. -
Election of 1860
The election was held on Tuesday November 6, 1860. It was served as the immidiate impetus for the outbreak of the Civil War. -
Secession of the Southern States
The Secession applies to the outbreak of the Civil War. Eleven states seceded from the United States. Those eleven states then created their own union. It extended to June 8th. That's when the completely seceded. They were the Confederate states
