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South & the slavery controversy
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First fugitive slave law passed
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Invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney
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Congress outlaws the importation of African slaves
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American Colonization Society was founded
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Missouri Comprimise passed
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The first issue of the Liberator is published
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Nat Turner's slave rebellion
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In 1835, the government ordered the southern postmasters to destroy abolitionist material due to anti-abolitionist mobbing and rioting at a postal office in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Wilmot Proviso is introuduced
The Wilmot Proviso was a document that tried to prevent slavery from being practiced in the territory won from the Mexican War. It didn't passs inciting more debate over the issue of slavery. -
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective and celebrated leaders of the Underground Railroad. -
Compromise of 1850
The continuing debate whether territory gained in the Mexican War should be open to slavery is decided in the Compromise of 1850: California is admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico territories are left to be decided by popular sovereignty, and the slave trade in Washington, DC is prohibited.