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The invention of the cotton gin
The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. The cotton was invented for the sole purpose of picking the seeds out of the cotton, making it efficient. This however created a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing was that it was produced in large amounts making people buy more, but it also required the labor of slaves.
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Missouri Compromise - it was an effort to keep a balance in the Congress between slave and anti slave states
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Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
The Tariff of 1828 was to raise the imports of the British, causing the southerners to get angry because it benefited the northerners more. Calhoun reached the conclusion that federal government only existed at the will of the states coming up with the less drastic solution - the doctrine of Nullification.
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The Liberator
The Liberator was written by William Lloyd Garrison . He was an abolitionist. The book reached souls around the world. IT talked about the uncompromising positions on the moral outrage that was slavery . You either loved him or not.
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Underground Railroad
The underground railroad helped slaves escape. People that helped escape was Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas: hiding slaves in his home along with the Quakers. Quakers where the first people who known to start helping the slaves slaves. Fredrick helped 1,500 slaves escape to the north. John Brown was the conductor of the train.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
He was the one that led the successful rebellion the slaves. He was born in a plantation in Virginia. He there was instructed to read and write . He was sold of three times and on the last owner was the Travis family, where he became a great preacher to the slaves. He though tit was the time to rise. He enlisted 4 men to execute his plan he killed the Travis family and enlisted 75 more slaves to help him murdering another 51 white people.
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Wilmot Priviso
Wilmot Proviso was created to abolish slavery during the Mexican War between 1846 and 1848. This declaration reflected the national political situation. And democrats were afraid of the addition of the slave territory.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Harriet Beecher Stowe's was the author of this book. The was written as a major influence on the was of the American Revolution. It established Stowe's reputation as a women of letter. I found that differnent sites have 10 or 20 as the day it was published so i just went with History.com. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/uncle-toms-cabin-is-published -
Fort Sumter is Fired upon
It was was one of the first sites of civil war. It had alot of batterles being fought in that place. one of the first ones they had was South Carolina's secession, initianting a stand off with the state's militia. Abraham Lincon also announced plans of bombarding that place and a 34-hour standoff. http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/fort-sumter
