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Cotton Gin
Increased the demand of slavery
south becomes slave dependant -
Industrial Revolution
Causes regional differences
North = Manufacturing
South = Agriculture -
Missouri Compromise
-Slavery is banned above the 36 30 line
-Main enters as free state
-Missouri enters as slave state -
Tariff of Abomination
Divides the country
The north supports it and south opposses it -
Nat Turnner
Slave rebellion- Scared souther whites; lead to stronger slave laws -
Bleeding Kansas
Mini civil war in kansas over the slavery debate- Violence broke out between the two sides -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal in virginia in an attempt to arm slaves and rebels. His raid failed, and he was executed for treason -
Election of 1860
Lincoln wins, and South Carolina fears Lincoln will end slavery so they vote to seceede from the union -
Confederate State of America
11 states broke away from the union and formed their own country -
Fort Sumter
1st battle of the civil war
The confederayes forced the union to surrender of the fort in charleston, S.C