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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad consisted of many people whom aided African-American slaves to freedom in the North. From 1810-1850, the South lost more than 100,000 slave to this effort. Notable people who were participants in this exodus were Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave, and John Fairfield, who was born to a slave-owning family.
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The Cotton Gin
The cotton gin (an invention by Eli Whitney) was patented on October 28, 1793. This was a great leap for production on cotton, since it made the tack of extracting cotton seeds much less arduous. To to the easier form of seed extraction though, the demand for slave labor boomed.
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Tariff of 1828 & the Nullification crisis
The Tariff of 1828(aka the "Tariff of Abominations) was seen as unconstitutional, since it was designed to protect industry in the Northern U.S., yet it stumped the Southern economy. Being the third tariff that sparked dislike among the Southern states, more agricultural states that depended on exporting cotton, it sparked a series of protest called the Nullification crisis that caused John Q. Adams to abolish the Tariffs.
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Missouri Compromise
The compromise was an effort by the U.S. Congress to keep peace between the factions of anti-slavery and pro-slavery Americans.The compromise was put at the 36-30 line to split the states that were either pro-slavery or against slavery. Missouri was made a slave state due to this.
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First Publication of "The Liberator"
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
This was one of the deadliest slave rebellions in the U.S., with a total of 176 slaves killed and less than 65 whites killed. The rebellion was led by an African-American slave by the name of Nathaniel Turner. Due to the rebellion, laws against education for slaves and free blacks, and come of their civil rights were taken away.
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Wilmot Proviso
This was an amendment to prevent slavery in the new states and to increase funding for the new states after the Mexican-American war. It was for James K. Polk's appropriation bill for the new states being funded. Though it didn't come to be, it showed a division in the Democratic party.
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Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay proposed a series of resolutions to the problem of California entering as a free state into the Union. He wanted to amend the Fugitive Slave act and abolished slave trade in Washington D.C. It also helped with the boundary disputes in the New Mexico Territories.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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'Bleeding Kansas'
Series of conflict to decide whether Kansas would be a slave or free state right after the Kansas Nebraska Act. It was fought between anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians". The conflict ended in a victory for the free states, since Kansas became a free state after that.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act allowed people of the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decided whether they wanted to be free or salve states. It was put in place to repeal the Missouri Compromise. This infuriated the North, since they liked the Missouri Compromise, and so many slave owners and non-slave owners rushed to new territories to change the outcome of whether each state would be a free or slave state.
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Brooks-Sumner Affair
After a bitter speech given by the senator Charles Sumner, another senator, Preston Brooks beat him with a cane. This showed how the Kansas conflict also spilled into the house of the Senate. Not to mention, Sumner had to take many years off in order to recover from this affair.
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Dred Scott Decision
This was a legal case in which a slave (Dred Scott) tried to sue the government for his freedom as well as his family's. He ended up losing, since his freedom was from residing in a free state which was part of the Missouri Compromise, which was then considered unconstitutional. This added further conflict between the South and North.
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
These were a series of debates between the republican senator runner up Abraham Lincoln and the Democratic senator runner up Stephen Douglas. They were all mostly in Illinois, Though their debates weren't usually on the same say in the same place. They later met up in the remaining districts of Illinois to finish the debates.
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John Brown's Raid
John Brown lead a group of abolitionist, slaves, and his sons to start a slave uprising at Harper's Ferry in Virginia. The battle lasted until the next day when they were suppressed by the U.S. army. Before he was hanged, he basically prophesied how the North and the South would not get along, and that they would have to be cleansed with blood.
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1860 Election
In this election, Abraham won presidency. Like this, he could put his ideals and put an effort to reunite the Union. He could also abolish slavery.
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Secession of Southern States
This was really the turning point in the relation between the North and the South. The Southern states finally left the Union, and would not come back so easily. This would really result in the start of the Civil War.
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Attack on Fort Sumter
Fart Sumter, which is occupied by Major Robert Anderson of the Union, gets bombarded by Confederate forces lead by General P.G.T. Beauregard. The bombardment lasted for 34 hours, in which at the end the Union gave up the fort. The fort was later retaken in February of 1865
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