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Invention of The Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney created the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized that production of cotton by greatly sped by removing seeds from cotton. -
Under Ground Rail Roads
A vast number of people that helped fugitives slaves escape to the North to Canada. -
Missouri Compromise
Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave . -
The Liberator is Published
The Liberator was a weekly published newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston Massachusetts. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virgina, during August 1831. -
Wilmont Proviso
Congress man David Wilmont first introduced the proviso in the Untied State in the United States House of Repesentives . As a rider on 2,000,000 appropriation bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American war. -
Compromise of 1850
Divisions over slavery territory in the Mexican-American war. War resolved in the Compromise of 1850. -
Dred Scott Decision
US court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, giving slave owners the right to take their slaves into the Western territories. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephien A. Douglas in 1853, when both were campaigning for election to the Unites States Senate from Illinois. -
Fort Sumter is fired upon
Morning time confederate guns surround around the harbor and open fire on the Fort Sumter. -
Secession of Southern States
After the civil war, four slave states of the upper south - Virginia, Arkansas,Tennessee, and North Carolina. Also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy.
