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Cotton Gin Picture
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Cotton Gin Picture
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Eli Witney Invents Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney inevents the cotton gin which is a machine to helps remove the seeds from cotton. The invention made production dramatically increase it's profitabilty and the land areas that can be used to utilzed for growing the crops. Not only did it increase profit but it increased the number of slaves needed. This caused the South to get more slaves in order to make a larger profit. Slaves were to work in the plantation areas, and work long hours. -
Compromise Tariff of 1833
Congress adopts the Compromise Tariff of 1833, which is proposed by senators Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun as a resoultion to the Nullification Crisis, Calhoun has a developed a theory that states have the right to nullify federal legislation if it runs counter to their interest. He proposes this step in response to ever steeper congressional tarriff passed in 1828 and 1832. To avoid the impending crisis betweet Jackson and South Carolina. Tariff was then lowered for the benefit of both. -
Picture of Compromise Tariff of 1833
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Picture of Compromise Tariff of 1833
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Picture of Compromise of 1850
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Picture of Compromise of 1850
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Compromise of 1850
California would be admitted as a free state and the territores of the New Mexico and Utah would be organized under the principle of popular sovereignty and new fugitive slave laws were passed. This allowed states to choose whether they wanted to allow slavery or not. This Compromise led a controversy among different people. People who were pro-slave believed slavery should be allowed everywhere due to its necessities. The North was a free state, while the South was a slave state. -
Picture of Fugitive Slave Act
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Picture of Fugitive Act
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Fugitive Slave Act
A new harsh and much harder law is passed. The Fugitive Slave Act strengthens the enforcement of the fugitive slave clause in the Constitution. Which makes the federal government responsible for the apprehension and return of all escaped slaves, and facillitates the job for slave catchers. This law made it hearder for slaves who wanted freedom. Slaves were angry and wanted to be free and this Act did not help them at all. It angered many but many were glad this Act was made to help pro-slavery. -
Picture of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Picture of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Uncle Tom Published
A book published in 1852, it sold hundreds of thousands of copies and added a powerful emotional fuel to the abolition movement. It was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Northerner who had actually spent very little time in the South. The South was mad and even banned it. They were mad because this book was an abolitionist paper which they were against slavery. The South only wanted slavery for their benefit. They did like the book since it would talk about the horror story of being a slave. -
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman was the conductor of the Underground Railroad. It was a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North. Plantations were shrinking which were caused a shortage of laborers. While many people hated Tubman for helping innocent slaves reach freedom, many view her as a savior. People wanted Tubman and even put a price for her capture. She was a abolitionist, -
Picture of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
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Picture of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
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