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Underground Railroad
The Railroad was a route from the southern states to Canada. It passed through 14 states. Slaves who escaped would use it to gain their freedom. The road had various stops along the way. Slaves would rest and eat there, then they would continue onward.Underground Railroad -
Cotton Gin
In the year 1794, a man named Eli Whitney decided to invent a machine that would help with the production of cotton. When the machine gained popularity it increased the value of cotton. Instead of growing crops the south, now mostly grew cotton to earn money. Cotton wasn't the only thing to increase, slavery also increased. The planter class needed more workers, so they turned to their only option.
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Missouri Compromise
In the year of 1819, Missouri requested to be admitted as a slave state. This caused tempers to arise. The request threatened the balance of free states and slaves ones. Congress came up with a solution, the solutions was to grant the request. At the same time, they made Maine a free state. The compromise also included a boundary that separated free and slave states. The line was decided to be the old Louisiana territory. Missouri Compromise -
A slavery Rebellion by Nat Turner
Turner was convinced by an eclipse of the Sun (1831) that the time to rise up had come, and he enlisted the help of four other slaves in the area. An insurrection was planned, aborted, and rescheduled for August 21,1831, when he and six other slaves killed the Travis family, managed to secure arms and horses, and enlisted about 75 other slaves in a disorganized insurrection that resulted in the murder of 51 white people. -
The Fail of a Document
The antislavery declaration reflected the national political situation. The Democrats had divided over slavery and expansion during the 1844 election, but after his victory James K. Polk had pushed for the acquisition of the Oregon country and for a larger share of Texas from Mexico. -
The Fugitive Slave Acts
Divisions over slavery in territory gained in the Mexican-American (1846-48). War were resolved in the Compromise of 1850. It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former’s favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
The book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. She enlisted help from others so she could write the story. The story brought new light to the struggle for freedom for slaves. The citizens were shocked to find out Book -
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Bleeding Kansas
[Bleeding Kansas](http:/http://www.history.com/topics/bleeding-kansas/)Another term to describe a period of violence for the settling of Kansas at the time. Where murder was a normal thing as a everyday life for pro-slavery or Anti-slavery. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Stephen A.Douglas and Abraham Lincoln had regarded 7 debates in the year of 1858 in which historians describe as The Great Debate for the Illinois state. With the most famous word of Lincoln "These poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent." -
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Raid on Harper's Ferry
On the night of October 16, 1859, Brown and his band overran the arsenal. Some of his men rounded up a handful of hostages, including a few slaves. Word of the raid spread, and by morning Brown and his men were surrounded. A company of U.S. marines arrived on October 17, led by Colonel Robert E. Lee and Lieutenant J. Brown’s raid helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible and thus became an important impetus of the Civil War. -
The election of 1860. Abraham Lincoln WINS!!!!!
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote. Election year -
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Southern Secession
The term secession had been used as early as 1776. South Carolina threatened separation when the Continental Congress sought to tax all the colonies on the basis of a total population count that would include slaves. Secession in this instance and throughout the antebellum period came to mean the assertion of minority sectional interests against what was perceived to be a hostile or indifferent majority.
