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Invention of the cotton gin
It revolutionized the cotton industry in the United States, but also led to the growth of slavery in the American South as the demand for cotton workers rapidly increased. The invention has thus been identified as an inadvertent contributing factor to the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
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The Underground Railroad
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Harriet Tubman began her work with the Underground Railroad. This was a network of antislavery activists who helped slaves escape from the South. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise regulated slavery in the counties western territories prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48). Soon after the war began, President James K. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million as part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty. -
Compromise of 1850
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As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished -
Uncle Toms cabin is published
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
learn more here The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed citizens in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide locally whether to allow slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas'
Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern yankees" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861, including "Bleeding Congress". -
Brooks-summer Event
SENATOR CHARLES SUMNER of Massachusetts was an avowed Abolitionist and leader of the Republican Party. -
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debate
A series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper;s Ferry
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John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harper's Ferry. The men captured citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal.The next morning while John brown was hiding the us marines and colonel Robert E.lee arrived and stormed the engine house , killing the raiders and capturing brown. -
Election of 1860
Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates\
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
