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First Slaves
First slaves come to America -
Cotton Gin Made
Cotton Gin made it easier to pick cotton, but they needed more slaves to pick da cotton -
The Tariff
Northerns wanted tariff on imported goods, Southerns didn't want tariff -
Missouri Compromise
Let in Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
American Colonization Society
Proposed sending freed slaves to Liberia b/c they thought they would never have the same rights. Only a few thousand actually moved tho -
Nat Turner's Revolt
Followers killed around 60 whites, increased fear of uprising slaves -
The Liberator
William Garrison launched one of the most influential antislavery newspapers -
Da Underground Railroad
A system to try and get slaves into the north -
Anti-Slave Society
An abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison. Frederick was a key leader who often spoke at its meetings. -
Freed Slaves Speeches
Freed slaves like Fredrick Douglas come and talk about the badness of slavery -
Annexation of Texas
Started a war with the mexicans which got them land in the Mexican Cession -
End of Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which provided new territory south of line to become slave territory -
California
There was a big debate on whether California would be a Slave State or Free State because it would upset the balance -
Compromise of 1850
California was admitted as a free state. In exchange, the south was guaranteed that there would be no restrictions on slavery in Utah or New Mexico. The slave trade in DC was prohibited. Fugitive Slave Law was passed, requiring northerners to return runaway slaves to their owners and made everyone a sheriff. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
It was an anti-slavery novel which revealed the true horrors and evils of slavery to the North. The South claimed it was an unfair depiction of slavery; however, that did not stop the growing number of abolitionists in the North. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Made it into 2 territories which would be voted on by pop soverngnity led to bleeding kansas where there was a mini battle -
Bleeding Kansas
Mini civil war in Kansas between proslave and antislave -
Republican Party Rising Up
It declared their new party against the expansion of slavery into new territories and selected a lot of candidates. -
Dred Scott Case
Slaves were property, and it made northerners mad because slavery could be everywhere -
Hanging of John Brown
it caused a rift between slave and free states. Free states thought we was a martyr while slave states were scared of him being a terrorist -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
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Fort Sumter
The confederate had taken all over lots of federal property in the south.Lincoln tried to send food to fort sumter. However, confederate guns soon opened fire on the Fort marking the start of a 4 year war. -
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Da Civil War