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Invention of Cotton Gin
The first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by U.S.American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794. Eli changed the entire cotton production. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise regulated slavery in the country's western hemisphere. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's rebellion was a slave rebellion. He was a black american who led the only effective slave rebellion.It is also known as the Southampton Insurrection.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was made to eliminate slavery within land during the Mexican War. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills passed by the U.S congress, it defused a four year political confrontation between slave and free states. -
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people in those territories to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. http://www.ushistory.org/us/31a.asp -
Brooks-Sumner Event
Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was an avowed Abolitionist and leader of the Republican Party, he gave a bitter speech in the Senate called 'The Crime Against Kansas'. http://www.ushistory.org/us/31e.asp -
Dred Scott Decision
The Dredd Scott case was a decision made by the US supreme court on whether an African american was enslaved or not, could not be an American citizen and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court. -
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Lincoln and Douglas. The debates were about the aftermath Lincoln would face in his victory of the Presidential Election of 1860. -
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John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He wanted to destroy the institution of slavery. -
Election of 1860
The Presidential Election of 1860 is when Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Secession of Southern States
After the Civil War began in April, four slave states – Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee – of the Upper South also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy. The government of the United States rejected the claims of secession and considered the Confederacy illegitimate.
