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The cotton gin was originally created to aid in stopping the slave population when in the industrial revolution era by Eli Whitney. But this actually did the exact opposite. Before the slaves could only make a few pounds of cotton by hand in a day but could now make close to 50 pounds in a day leading to more production of cotton and more needs for slaves. This had an impact on the secession because the slave owners would oppose the deportation of slaves due to how rich they were making them.
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The Missouri compromise was made to keep balance in congress between free states and slave states. This compromise stated that the colonists would spilt off part of Massachusetts now known as Maine and make it a free state and that Missouri would be admitted in as a southern slave state.
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However, it wasn't just a compromise for Missouri and Maine. This also made the 36 30 line which stated that no slavery was allowed into the Northern territory this led to more sectionalism and fighting because of slavery only being allowed in certain parts.
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This is also known as the Southampton Insurrection was a slave rebellion of Virginians that took place in Southampton,Va. Nat and the rebels killed a total of between 55 and 65 people and of those people 51 were white.The slave owners saw this as horrible while the North saw this as a good thing and that maybe slavery would simmer down.However, this just led to slave owners being stricter and going on a rampage and killing 200 slaves, this made Southerners furious and scared of another rebellion
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The Fugitive Slave Acts are a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. This said that slaves must returned to their owners even if they were in a free state. This meant that owners could just go into free states and say that an African American was a slave and would bring the slave to court and almost all slaves would be sent with this person.
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The slave was almost always guilty because the judges got an extra $5 for saying the slave was guilty. When this was found out the free states all the people became very mad this led to more sectionalism.
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The Republican Party, often called the GOP Grand Old Party is one of two major political parties in the United States even to this day. This party in in opposition of the expansion of slavery into the Western Territory. The republican party also fought for protecting the rights of African Americans after the Civil War ended. This led to more sectionalism because the Southern states wanted to expand South and get more land for slaved and the North didn't want slavery to expand at all.
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This act was done in order to initiate a slave revolt in the southern states. This raid was when Brown and his men were trying to target arsenal directly in order to arm slaves to start a revolt against their owners.Abolitionists had paid Brown to do this raid and set fear into the Southern plantation owners so that they would stop slavery. However, this just led to more anger and the secession of Southern states. This was the first national crisis and was extensively covered in press nationwide
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The election of 1860 was one of the most pivoting presidential elections in American history. It showed that the Democrats were now not getting that much representation due to "Lincoln being against Democratic Party, nominee Senator Stephen Douglas, Southern Democratic Party Southern Democratic Party nominee John Breckinridge and Constitutional Union Party nominee John Bell." But the overall issue that led to the seccesion of the Southern states was that of slavery states and rights. -
The main point that slave states had to lead to nationalism was that they were not being treated as equal to their counterparts,so they wanted out and that's exactly what happened,and this was oneof the major causes of the civil war was the war over slavery more brought out in the Emancipation Proclamation of1863 when the civil war was officially made over slavery with this proclamation this was also to stop other nations from stepping in on the Southern side so the Union could keep them overrun
