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The Cotton Ginn was Invented
The cotton gin was invented, and it had cotton be produced almost 50x faster then ever before. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri was finally decided to be a slave state, and then split up Massachusetts into two states and created Maine. Maine then became a free state. -
Compromise of 1850
California was decided to be a free state, but had to make the fugitive slave law which made the North have to get involved with slavery. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe published the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book informed the people in the North how the slaves were being treated, and this made them start to disagree with the way they were getting cotton. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
They decided to let the people choose who if they wanted the state to be free, or slave. People from both flood into the land and were fighting over the land, and 205 people were killed. -
The Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott thought that since he was living in a free state with his master that he should be free. He took his case to the supreme court, and they ruled that he could not be free because he was considered as property. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Douglas was arun away slave who traveled all the way to the white house, this is where he debated with Lincoln to try to stop slavery. -
John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry
He tried to attack the arsenal and get a bunch of slaves in there to get weapons. No slaves showed up, and John Brown and his men were all captured or killed. -
John Brown
John Brown was a abolitionist who did many violent attacks. He was a very violent person. He tried to create slave revolts but didnt succeed and was captured and hung. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln was elected as president. The south was very mad about this, and they decided to secede from the United States. He was threatend by many people, and usually had to travel in disguise. -
The South Carolina Secession
South Carolina finally secedes from the United States, and becomes the first of many states in the south that secede. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
South Carolina countinuously attacks Fort Sumter for 33 hours. They faught brother vs. brother, and in the end the american forces guarding the fort had to surrender.
