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Invention of the Cotton Gin
In need of a job to pay off debts, Eli Whitney left Massachusetts for a job opportunity in Georgia. While in Georgia, he learned that the planters in the South needed a way to make growing cotton profitable. Whitney was encouraged by Catherine Greene to find a solution to the time consuming event of picking cotton. She supported him both financially and with moral support. Because of this invention, the yield of raw cotton doubled every 10 years after 1800. (http://bit.ly/1eTmhLJ) -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of African American people that provided shelter and many other things to escaped slaves. Harriet Tubman is one of the most famous conductors of the Underground Railroad.(http://bit.ly/1k4yTQz). -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was started by Congress to defuse the rivalries that were started because of the request of Missouri to permit slavery. Admission of Missouri having slaves would mess up the balance that they already had with 22 slave states. The Compromise bill stated that Missouri was a slave state.
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The Liberator is published
William Lloyd Garrison created the weekly newspaper "The Liberator". In the first issue of the newspaper their was a statement that said "Our country is the world-our country men are mankind." William Lloyd Garrison was one of the most famous abolitionists. (http://bit.ly/1QOdSbF) -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner led the only effective slave rebellion. On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and fellow slaves killed the Travis family. He enlisted 75 other slaves to help him and the other slaves murder the white people. They murdered 51 other white people.
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Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was a document that was made to eliminate slavery which led to the Mexican war. David Wilmot proposed his amendment to the bill. It restricted the expansion of slavery into territory in Mexico. (http://bit.ly/2wUydJQ) -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was created when their were divisions over slavery in Mexico. The Compromise did multiple things. It made it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book that was made by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book had a major influence on slavery and how people viewed it. Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel. (http://bit.ly/1OfdrVQ) -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlers to decide if slavery would be allowed in a new state's boarders. The conflict that happened between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settler's led to the period known as Bleeding Kansas. It also paved the way for the American Civil War. (http://bit.ly/1kRk6En) -
Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act used the principle of popular sovereignty. Since there were some people that were for slavery and some that weren't, violence happened. John Brown and Harpers Ferry were in conflict. (http://bit.ly/29I6TUY) -
Brooks-Sumner Event
Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner unconscious with his cane. He did this because of their differences on slavery. This a very important event in the senate's history. (http://bit.ly/1vJmAwD) -
Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott case is on of the most infamous cases in its history. When Scott went to trial, the court decided that slaves and free African-Americans could never become U.S. citizens. This decision influenced abolitionists like Abraham Lincoln.
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The debates were a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. They were in a campaign for a senate seat in Illinois. These debates led to Abraham Lincoln's election as President. (http://bit.ly/2xMaVlW) -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown's raid was an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. On October 19, soldiers overran Brown and his followers. Before Brown was executed he gave his guard a paper that said "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood". (http://bit.ly/2qaSXGs) -
Election of 1860
In this election, Abraham Lincoln was elected president. The electoral split between Northern and Southern Democrats was spliy over slavery (http://bit.ly/2zh2Ab6) -
Secession of the Southern States
Secession compromises the series of events that began on December 20, 1860. The first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a government at Montgomery, Alabama. Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina joined the government. (http://bit.ly/1nKo0rd) -
Fort Sumter is fired upon
On April 12, 1861, Confederate guns opened fire on Fort Sumter. Talks between General Pierre Beauregard and Robert Anderson failed and it led to the shooting. (http://bit.ly/2yrj4Am)
