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Invention of Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney born on December 8, 1765 learned about cotton production and how hard it was to make and create. Whitney’s hand-cranked machine could remove the seeds from 50 pounds of cotton in a day. Whitney received a patent for his invention in 1794, he then formed a cotton gin manufacturing company. -
Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad 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. -
Missouri Compromise
History Of Missouri 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. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
Nebraska kansas act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery. -
Tariff of 1828 and Nullification Crisis
In 1832, Henry Clay pushed through Congress a new tariff bill, with lower rates than the Tariff of Abominations.The reductions were too little for South Carolina, and on November 24, 1832, a state convention adopted the Ordinance of Nullification, which declared that the Tariffs of 1828. -
The Liberator is Published
The LiberatorThe Liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts. William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in December, 1805. At thirteen years of age he began his newspaper career with the Newburyport Herald, where he acquired great skills in both accuracy and speed in the art of setting type. He also wrote anonymous articles, and at the age of twenty-one began publishing his own newspaper. More History at: http://www.accessible-archives.co -
Nat turners rebeliion
Nat turner rebeilion was led by Nat Turner, around 56 rebel slaves were killed, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land as a result of the Mexican War. After the war began James K. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million as part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise The 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. Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published
Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.” -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding KansasBleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. -
Election 0f 1860
The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election.The Republicans met in Chicago that May and recognized that the Democrat's turmoil actually gave them a chance to take the election.
