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Infamous Cotton Gin
History
Eli Whitney created the cotton gin 1794 as a gift for a elderly women. Eli patented his invention later on but made little to no money off of his invention due to replicas. -
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Tariff of 1828 and Nullification Crisis
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Missouri Compromise
History Missouri Compromise was a compromise that allowed Missouri into the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
Underground Railroad
History The underground railroad wasn't underground but a name, it was a passage used by slaves to go up north to the free states. -
Nat Tuner's Rebellion
Black American slave that terrorized the white South that set off a new wave of oppressive legislation to African Americans -
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The Liberator
History
The liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston -
Wilmot Proviso
History Wilmot proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as the result of Mexican war -
COMPROMISE OF 1850
History laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The book is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Kansas and Nebraska Act
History Allows settlers to decide whether slaver will be allowed within new state borders -
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Election of 1860
History Election of 1860 was a presidential election between Abraham Lincoln and John C. Breckinridge in which Lincoln won the election
