Civil War

By ljmmankin
  • Invention of Cotton Gin

    Invention of Cotton Gin

    The cotton gin increase the desire for slave labor by making the growth of cotton in mass quantaties much more profitable.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    This was when Missouri was accepted as a slave state, Maine was created as a free state, and the 36-30 line was created.

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom's cabin

    Uncle Tom's cabin

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Dred Scott

    Dred Scott

    The decision to not only make slavery legal in all of the United States, but also allow it to spread West led Dred Scott to go to the Supreme court asking for his freedom.
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    Lincoln-Douglas debates

  • John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

  • Lincolns Election

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

  • Secession of South Carolina

    Secession of South Carolina

    South Carolina was the first to secede from the Union.