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Undergroud railroad
The underground railroad was a channel of networks (passageways) that helped the slaves escape the to the North.Each year it helped hundreds of slaves northward. The system grew, and around 1831, it then called "the underground railroad".
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Invention of the cotton gin
https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/invention-cotton-gin
The cotton gin was an amazing new way to pick cotton, allowing the machine to do the most work. Before the cotton gin the number of slaves weren't as bad, but after the cotton gin the people needed to get more slaves to make them do all of the work that the cotton gin did not do itself. It was a changing factor in the way the economy produced cotton. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an act of trying to balance out the power of the free states and the slave states. Missouri being added as a slave state balanced the power out. This of course is what was intended. -
Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
The South did not like these tariffs that they had to pay. They simply tried to state that these tariffs were ruining their economy, and all of their money was going to go to the tariffs and not to the south, like needed. The south nullified these tariffs out of the anger of not being heard. -
The Liberator is Published
This weekly newspaper was created by William Lloyd Garrison, in his newspapers he became famous for being one of the most radical abolitionists.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
This was one of the largest slave rebellions to ever take place in the united States. Turner was a religious man, and he believed that God put him on this earth to stand up for what he believes in. He and some of his fellow slaves decided to go a little hunt and kill off all of the white slave owners, and their families. They went to 11 plantations until they were finally captured and killed by a large militia.
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Wilmot Proviso
Created a law that banned slavery in the Mexico territory acquired during the Mexican War. -
Compromise of 1850
California requested permission to join the Union as a free state, but the other states did not agree with this because it would tip the balance of power between the free and slave states. Eventually it was agreed that California would then join the Union as a free state.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published.
This book was created by Harriet Beecher Stowe and it is about the lives of a few slaves at a Kentucky plantation. -
Bleeding Kansas
Complete bloodshed caused by the fighting over the Kansas territory between the pro slavery and antislavery advocates.This caused an uproar with all of the violence caused, many people were killed in order for each of the sides to make their points.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act allowed people that currently lived in the Kansas or Nebraska area to decide whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Brooks-Sumner Event
Senator Charles Sumner was summoned to a chamber by his representatives, little did he know he was about to be murdered. When he entered the chamber and got ready to take care of business the House of Representatives beat him senselessly.
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Dred Scott Decision
African American slave who sued for the freedom of his wife, two daughters, and himself. -
Fort Sumter if fired upon
The fort caused tension and when it was asked to be given up, Union officials denied, and decided to fight for the fort. Confederates took this as a challenge and on April 12 shots ran out in Fort Sumter.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fort-sumter-fired-upon
