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Slavery
The South wanted the slaves and the North did not, so the war began because the North wanted the South to join the union. -
ablishing slavery
Vermont, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts were the states that went against slavery and were free of slaves. That caused tention because then the slaves tryed to excape because they wanted to be free. -
Cotten Gin
When they invented the Cotten Gin, the plantation owners needed more slaves to process the cotton. It caused more slavery. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner and 16 other men killed killed around 60 white men and women. This scared the white people from the South even when they killed and found the killers they were still scared. -
Underground Railroad
The Undergorund Railroad was when slaves got pulled in by people who liked slaves or who was against slavery. They took them in their house and kept them in their while they were going to move North. -
Fugitive Slave Act.
The fugitive Slave Act was when slaves excaped and the platation owners put up signs and stuff to find the slaves. It was just when a slave excaped and they tired to look and find the slave. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This novel changed the way white people looked and felt about slavery. It was talking about freedom and many great things and that a person or slaves should not be owned. -
Abraham Lincoln is elelcted president
They thought that Lincoln was going to get rid of slavery, and the people wanted slavery so they did not like him. -
The First Shot of the Civil War
The first shot was fired by the Confederets. It was fired in South Carolina, Fort Sumter -
Virginia secedes from the Union.
people from South Carolina left the Union because of the november 1860 of Abraham Lincoln.