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Catalysts of the Civil War

  • invention of the Cotton Gin

    This cotton gin machine shortened the total of time and the codt of dividing the cotton seeds from the valuable white fiber. The cotton gin made cotton cultivation alot more useful.
  • Missouri Compromise

    This compromise saved the balance of free and slave states in the Senate. But, it started from the beginning of the regional conflict that would showed the way to civil war.
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass was the author of his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, which was first published in 1845. During the Civil War, Douglass converted President Linciln to let the freedom fight for the North.
  • Free-Soil Party of 1848

    The Free-Soil Party worked to stop the slavery in the western territories, fixed by antislavery Democrats and Whigs, and dissolved into the new Republican Party. The Free-Soil Party agreed to keep slavery out of the western territories.
  • Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

    After Harriet Tubman escaped in 1849, she made almost 24 trios into the South, taking alot of slaves, with her parents, to safety. Underground Railroad carried the black people over hundreds of miles of dangerous terrain.
  • Fugitive Slave Act

    This act added stringent clauses to the older law, with the terms that the secret people help with arresting the slaves who ran away.
  • Compromise of 1850

    This showed that compromis was not a good idea to the regional conflict, as it struggled alot averages near more original locations.
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Stowe's thoughtful character, Uncle Tom, gave slavery a time for those people who had never supported it at first. Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin, a powerful story of slavery in 1852.