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Underground Railroad
The underground railroad was a network of secret routes and safe- houses. The routes were made to help slaves become free. The network was established in the mid 19th century.
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Invention of the cotton gin
Made by Eli Whitney. Stripped cotton faster and increased the need for slaves. This was part of the start of the industrial revolution. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by the congress to decided if slavery would be permitted or not. -
The Liberator is published
The Liberator was a weekly newspaper. It was published by William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison called for the immediate emancipation of slavery. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner led the only successful slave revolt in the U.S..This set off a wave of new oppression against slaves. Slaves could no longer be educated or moved or have assemblies. -
Wilmot Proviso
He didn't want slavery in the states from the Mexican American war. He proposed a law against it. The law passed in the House but failed in the Senate. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 happened because of slave territory in Mexico area in they wasn’t sure what states would be slave states. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Was said to lay the founding for the civil war.In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies in the USA. Popularized many stereotypes against African Americans. -
Tariff of 1828 and The Nullification Crisis
The Nullification met in 1832 and decided that the Tariff of 1828 was unconstitutional. They said that it was unenforceable. They said that the attempts to use force to collect taxes would result in the state's secession. -
Bleeding Kansas
It was a war that was fought between proslavery and antislavery people to see who would have control of the territory Kansas. -
Kansas Nebraska
It was a act that allowed people with a territory to decide wether or not slavery would be allowed in a new state border. -
Brooks sumner event
Preston Brooks attacked senator Charles Sumner. because of a speech Charles Sumner did a few days before that made him very angery. -
Dred Scott decision
Dred Scott decision was court case that went all the way to Supreme Court to figure out should slavery be allowed in the West. -
Lincoln Douglas debates
It was debates between stephon A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. during the 1858 llinois state election campaign. -
John browns raid on harpers ferry
John Brown lead small group raids on federal armory in what is now known as West Virginia to attempt to step slavery there. -
Election of 1860
Electionof 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States he was the was the first republican to win the presidency. -
Secession of southern stated
The secession happened during the American civil war it started in the four slave states of the upper south Virginia Arkansas Tennessee and North Carolina. -
Fort Sumter is fired upon
Fort Sumter was a island. that was the first site where the first shots of the civil war was at in 1861 to 1865.
