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The Cotton Gin is Invented
This increases the demand for slaves & causes the souths economy to become more dependent on slave labor -
The Missouri Compromise
Says that slavery will not be allowed over the 36 30 line -
Tariff of abominations
Divides the country (the south opposes it & the north supports) -
Wilmot Proviso
stated all land gained from mexico would be free angered southenrners Never passed -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The people of territory would vote on the issue of slavery (popular sovereignty) -
Dredd Scott Case
Court case where a slave (Dredd Scott) tried to sue for his freedom the supreme court ruled that he did not have the same rghts as citizens did becasue he was a slave and also that the missouri compromise (which he argued he was free becuase he lived above the 36 30 line as a slave made him a free man) was unconstitutuional -
Harper's Ferry
abolitionist John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal in Virginia in an attempt to arm slaves & rebel. his raid failed & he was executed for treason. The North declared him a hero, & the South thought of him as a terrorist of some sort. -
Election of 1860
Republican: Lincoln
Democrat:Breckenridge & Douglas
Constituants: Bell Lincoln Wins -
South Carolina Votes to secede
South Carolina fears President Lincoln will edn slavery and they vote to secede from the Union. -
Confederate States of America
11 states broke away form the united states and formed their own country. They elected Jefferson Davis as their president.
