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Invention of Cotton Gin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_ginThe first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by U.S.American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794.The invention has thus been identified as an inadvertent contributing factor to the outbreak of the U.S.American Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin -
Underground Railroad
<a href='http://https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/slavery-and-reform-1820-1840-16/anti-slavery-resistance-movements-The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.This led to one of the primary grievances of the Union cause in the Civil War. 124/the-underground -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri CompromiseThe Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, officially opening up all new states to slavery. Its repeal began the sectarian conflict that eventually brought the nation into the Civil War. -
The Liberator is Published
It was the most influential antislavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of U.S. history. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's rebellion was one of the bloodiest and most effective in American history. It ignited a culture of fear in Virginia that eventually spread to the rest of the South, and is said to have expedited the coming of the Civil War. Nat Turner's Rebellion -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.[1] The conflict over the proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850
Tensions continued to escalate after the Compromise of 1850 failed to settle the slavery matter, and the Civil War became increasingly inevitable in the following decade. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published
Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which created such a stir when it was published in 1852 that Abraham Lincoln reportedly called Stowe "the little lady who made this great war."The Civil War, too, was largely the result of cultural shifts, many of them connected with Stowe's historic novel. Uncle Tom's Cabin -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Kansas-Nebraska Act may have been the single most significant event leading to the Civil War. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861 -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857), was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court,[2][3] and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States. Dred Scott, an enslaved African American man who had been taken by his owners to free states and t -
Brooks-Sumner Event
Brooks' act and the polarizing national reaction to it are frequently cited as a major factor in the rising tensions leading up to the American Civil War.
