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Invention of cotton gin
The production of cotton in the southern United States, and had an enormous impact on the institution of slavery in this country. Before the invention of the cotton gin, not only was the raising of cotton very labor intensive, but separating the fiber from the cotton seed itself was even more labor intensive. -
Missouri compromise
Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state.enter link text -
Nat turner's rebellion
one of America's largest slave uprisings strikes fear in the South and prompts some to call for an end to the institution of slavery.enter link text -
Wilmont proviso
The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. -
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Underground railroad
The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad. It got its name because its activities had to be carried out in secret.it was used to help run away slaves escape, The network of routes extended through 14 Northern states and “the promised land” of Canada–beyond the reach of fugitive-slave hunters. More Info -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. More Info -
Uncle tom's cabin is published
Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was first published in 1852, is thus a deliberate and carefully written anti-slavery argument. -
Bleeding kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state. More Info -
Kansas nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. More Info -
Brooks-Sumner event
The Caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate when Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist, with a walking cane in retaliation for a speech More Info -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott Decision". More Info -
Linchon-douglas debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. More Info -
John browns raid of Harpers ferry
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. More Info -
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. More Info -
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Secession of southern states
South Carolina: December 20, 1860 Mississippi: January 9, 1861 Florida: January 10, 1861 Alabama: January 11, 1861 Georgia: January 19, 1861 Louisiana: January 26, 1861 Texas: February 1, 1861 Virginia: April 17, 1861 Arkansas: May 6, 1861 North Carolina: May 20, 1861 Tennessee: June 8, 1861 Kentucky: Ordinance passed by people in 1861 Missouri: Ordinance passed, but not presented to people
