Causes Leading Up To The Civil War

Invention Of The Cotton Gin

Oct 28, 1793

Eli Whitney inventor of the Cotton Gin and many other inventions and concepts during this time. Eli Whitney patterned this invention in the year 1793, and it only took 10 days to accomplish.

Missouri Compromise

Period: Jan 1, 1819 to Jan 1, 1820

The Missouri Compromise was The request that Missouri summit-ed to be in the union under a slave state. Debate between free and slave states was already in the air and Missouri becoming a free state out weighed the delegates of the free states.