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Invention of Cotton Gin
Invention of Cotton GinEli Whitney was born on December 8, 1765, in Westborough, Massachusetts. Whitney learned about cotton production–in particular, the difficulty cotton farmers faced making a living.Greene and her plantation manager, Phineas Miller, explained the problem with short-staple cotton to Whitney, and soon thereafter he built a machine that could effectively and efficiently remove the seeds from cotton plants. The invention, called the cotton gin -
Missouri Comprise
Compromise The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
The Liberator is published
In 1831, Garrison published the first edition of The Liberator. It was made so that slavery could end. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner Was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South. -
Wilmot Proviso
Proviso Was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War. 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
compromise of 1850 Consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Uncle Tom Was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. -
Underground Railroad
Slavery Was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska actThe Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders -
Brooks-sumner event
On May 22, 1856, the "world's greatest deliberative body" became a combat zone. A member of the House of Representatives entered the Senate chamber and savagely beat a senator into unconsciousness. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats. -
Election of 1860
Election of 1860The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election.Stephen Douglas had the best chance and he did. The vice president was Herschel V. Johnson.
