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Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin was actually invented by a slave. This invention made picking cotton faster as it used wires to separate the seeds. This lead to a higher demand for slaves to pick more cotton as it was being produced faster. -
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, after turf wars arise between the US and Mexico over the border of Texas a solution was needed. The treaty was basically forced on Mexico and they ended up giving the US the territory that would later become California and New Mexico. Mexico also cedes north of the Rio Grande and the US in return gave Mexico $15 million. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe became a very popular book about slaves in the northern states. It sells two million books in a single decade and eventually is banned in the southern states. Uncle Tom’s Cabin eventually becomes a play. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act is established when Kansas “Bleeding Kansas” has a civil war against itself and in order to try to solve the problem. This resulted in a “caning in congress” between Congressmen Preston Brook from South Carolina who was a democrat and Senator Charles Sumner a republican from Massachutes. -
The Birth of the Republican Party
The birth of the Republican Party, when modern day republicans came into power they strongly opposed slavery and would end up supporting President Lincoln. -
Dred Scott V. Sanford
Dred Scott V. Sanford, was a supreme court case where Dred Scott born a slave in Missouri was brought to Illinois which was a free state by his owner. It was ruled that Dred Scott would not be declared a free man because he was his owner, Mr Sanford's property. -
South Carolina Secedes
After Abraham Lincoln is declared the sixteenth president of the United States, this causes South Carolina to secede from the United States on December 20, 1860. This leads to more southern states seceding.