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Underground Railroad
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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was used primarily for the slaves in the south to escape to freedom.
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Invention of Cotton gin
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a machine that seperated seeds from the cotton. This sped up the production of cotton, became America's leading export, led North to not be prepared and south to be prepared for war. [click here](www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney) -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise regulated slavery in western states. By repealing the Missouri compromise, people in the anti-slavery North viewed Congress as allowing the South to exert more control in Congress.
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The Dred Scott Decision
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Wilmot Proviso
Proviso created a legislation if passed, Proviso would have outlawed slavery in territory acquired by United States as a result of the war. Although the plan failed, the intensity of the debate prompted the first serious discussion of succession. -
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Compromise of 1850
Created 5 laws in September of 1850.
1. California is a free state
2. New Mexico and Utah decided if the states were free or had slaves.
3. Texas gave up land and paid 10 million dollars to their debt to Mexico.
4. The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Uncle Tom's Cabin changed attitudes in society about the institution of slavery. After the election of Lincoln, a number of slave states succeeded from the union which triggered the Civil War.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Bleeding Kansas
After the repeal of the Missouri Compromise by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, pro-slavery people had an uproar along with the free-state settlers. -
The Raid on Harpers Ferry
In the October of 1859, military soliders at Harper's Ferry were the target of an attack led by John Brown. The raid was originally apart of a multi-step plan to create an independent stronghold of freed slaves. -
The Presidential Election of 1860
Presidential Election in which republic Abraham Lincoln won against democrats John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas and Constitutional Union Candidate John Bell. -
Fort Sumter is Fired Upon
Fort Sumter was the first battle of the civil war. The confederate artillery bombardment of Major Anderson's union Garrison in the unfinished fort in harbor at Charleston, had been preceded by months of seige-like conditions.
