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Cataysts of the Civil War
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Invention of the Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was created by Eli Witney. This invention incresased the production of cotton, causing it to become very profitable which later caused a high demand for slaves. This also sparked more problems and conflicts with slavery. -
Missouri Compromise
This was created to try to keep a balance of power in congress beween the slave states and free states. The Missouri Compromise caused many conflicts between the north and the south. -
Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave
This is a memoir written by Fredrick Douglass, which documents inhumane and injustices of being a slave. It is considered to be one of the most influential writings in the aboltionists movement. -
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Harriet tubman led slaves to freedom, by leading them to the free northern states. The "Underground Railroad" was a secret network of houses where runaway slaves stayed on their journey to freedom in the north. -
Compromise of 1850
This was apart of a set of bills that were passed to abolish slavery. But this law specifically ended slavery in Washington D.C. and it also admitted California to the Union as a free state. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
This act is made up of laws that forced runaway slaves (if caught) to be returned to their slave owners. It was being abused by whites, by illeagally capturing free slaves and selling them into slavery. The slaves would run to the north to be free, but if caught they would be returned to the south to their owners. This sparked a lot of tension between the north was made up of more aboltiontists and the south mainly consisted of those were pro-slavery. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Her book was a form of protest against slavery. It unveiled the cruel and inhumane things in slavery. The book was written in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and this too caused friction between the north and the south. -
The Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
This allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not Kansas should become a free state or aslave state based on popular soverignty. This caused many problems between the north and south, which later led to "Bleeding Kansas". -
Bleeding Kansas
A fight between anti and pro slavery on wheather or not Kansas shold be a free state or not. In result of this viloent outburst, over 50 men were killed, but in the ed Kansas became a free state. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dred Scott was a free slave living in Wisconsin, fhe files a lawsuit against his slave owner's wife, after his owner died.
Because of the Missouri Compromise. Scott was a free man where he was located, but the wife thought she still owned him. In the end, he won the case.
