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The invention of the Cotton Gin
- ELi Whitney
- Whitney created the cotton gin.
- Georgia
- October 28th, 1793
- This was a more effecient way to seperate cotton.
- A conflict due to the increase number of slaves in the south.
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Embargo Act of 1807
- President Thomas Jefferson
- Jefferson made all exports illegal.
- Nationwide 4.December 22, 1807
- This was to restrict Britain and France to rely on the US during rthe Napoleonic War.
- Conflict because the south depended on the exports and other countries for goods.
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the Missouri Compromise
- The south, the north, Missouri
- The congress was deciding wether Misoouri should be a slave or free state which would affect the balance.
- Missouri
- March 3, 1820 5.this affected the balance of free and slave state so other states were brought in to balance the states.
- This was a compromise to even the number of states for slave and free states.
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the Tariff of Abominations
- john C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson
- A tariff passed to protect goods in the US while raising tax for the South.
- Washington
- may 19 1828
- This made South caroliina almost secede so there was a compromise to stop the secession.
- This was a conflict which angered the south because they had to pay high tariffs for imported goods which they depended on.
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Compromise of 1850
- Henry Clay, the South and the North
- Henry Clay introduced this compromise that resolves the tensions between the North and the South with the fugitive slave act and california becoming a free state.
- NAtionwide, mostyl dealing with the western side.
- Janaury 29, 1850
- This resolves the tension between the south and north.
- Compromise by Henry Clay to stop the tension between the north and the south.
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Uncle toms Cabin
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- This is a book written by Stowe about slavery.
- Nationwide, mainly in the North
- March 20 1852
- This was the cause of the North in concerns for slavery and brought the idea of aboltion.
- Conflict beccause the south was against the book.
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Kansas- Nebraska act
- Kansas and Nebraska
- Kansas and Nebraska had the right to vote by popular sovereignty to be free or slave state.
- Kansas and Nebraska
- May 30 1854
- This gave the option for Kansas and Nebraska to be free or slave. But soon became a problem because the choices would conflict with the two sides.
- Compromise due to giving the states the chance to be free or slave.
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Bleeding Kansas
- Nebraska and Kansas
- Nebraska and Kansas were in conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery.
- Nebaska and Kansas
- May 30th, 1854
- The popular sovereingty didn't work creating violence for both states.
- This was a conflict due to the popular sovereingty not getting along together in the states.
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Dred Scott Case
- Dred Scott and Sandford, Supreme Court
- Dred Scott sued Sanford for areesting him and claiming him as a slave. But the Court went against him.
- Illiounois
- March 6 1857
- Scott was to be a slave and made the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
- Conflict that dealt with the north being free states but Scott was to be a slave.
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john Brown's raid
- John Brown, his rebels, and the slave owners.
- John Brown held a raid to attack the slave owners.
- town of haper's ferry, virginia 4.October 16 1859
- This became a violent act from the abolitonists.
- A conflict causing violent conflicts between the two sides.
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The Election of 1860
- Abraham Lincoln, John C. Brekinridge, john Bell, Stephen A. Douglas.
- Abraham Lincoln won the election.
- Nationwide in the US 4.November 6th, 1860 5.When Lincoln won the election, it created conflict with the South.
- it was a conflict because the South were against lincoln since he was an abolitionust.
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South Carolina secedes from union
- South Carolina
- South Carolina secedes from the Union when Lincoln won the presidentary.
- South Carolina
- December 20 1860
- South Carolina was the first state to seced from the Union.
- Conflict due to the south was seceding saying that they had enough because Lincoln won.