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Invention of the cotton gin
http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney
-A machine invented by Eli Whitney
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Missouri Compromise Timespan
-March 3, 1820 decisive votes in the house admitted Maine as a free state.
- March 2, 1821, Congress stipulated that missouri could not gain admission to the union until exclusionary clause could be agreed upon.
- 1857, compromise was repealed unconstitutional by Dred Scott. https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/themissouricompromise-130428193911-phpapp01-thumbnail-4.jpg?cb=1367177986 -
Missouri Compromise
-effort by congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries.
-in the late 1819, union threatened by the request of Missouri for approval that slavery would be permitted.
- U.s consisted of 22 states, divided evenly between slave and free states.
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Nat turners rebellion
- Slave rebellion which was located in Southampton county Virginia and took place during august, 1831. -Nat turner was the leader and rebel slaves and killed 55-65 people, largest slave uprising in history.
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The Liberator is Published
- A weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison who was located in Boston, Massachusetts. First issues of the liberator appeared with the motto "our country is the world-our countrymen are mankind" -Spoke down upon Compromise of 1850, condemned the Kansas- Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision and welcomed John Browns Rail.
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Nullification Crisis
-U.S. sectional political crisis between 1832-1837
- Occurred during the presidency of Andrew Jackson
- South Carolina stated that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and null.
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Wilmot Proviso
-suggested an american law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico into the Mexican war.
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Underground railroad
- Network of people, majority african american, offering shelter and healthcare to escaped slaves. -occurred in the 18th century to the civil war.
- Harriet Tubman was the leader of the group that soon escaped the plantation with two of her brothers.
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Compromise of 1850
-Henry Clay attempted to seek a compromise relating to the crisis between the north and south.
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Bleeding Kansas
https://www.britannica.com/event/Bleeding-Kansas-United-States-history
-Border war
-Series of aggressive political confrontations in the us between 1854 and 1861 which included anti slavery " free- states" and pro-slavery " border Ruffian in Kansas.
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Brooks-sumner event
http://www.ushistory.org/us/31e.asp
-Also known as the Caning of Charles Sumner, Brooks- sumner event occurred on may 22, 1856
- U.S representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles sumner had spoke upon Brooks family member in a speech given two days prior. -
Dred scott Decision
https://www.britannica.com/event/Dred-Scott-decision
-Legal Case where the U.S. supreme court on March 6th in 1857 declared that a slave who was living in a free state and territory did not have freedom.
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/debates.htm
-A series of 7 debates occurring between Abe Lincoln, the republican candidate for the U.S senate, and senator Stephen Douglas.
- Lincoln and douglas were trying for their respective parties to take control of the illinois General assembly. -
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-browns-raid-on-harpers-ferry
-John Brown led a small group on a protest against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to begin an armed slave revolt and destroy the image of slavery. -
Election of 1860
http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/journal/2010/10/18/why-lincoln-won-1860/
-Democrats gathered in Charlestown, south Carolina in April 1860 to elect their choice for president in the occurring election.
-northern democrats felt Stephen Douglas had the biggest chance to defeat the " black republicans" -
Session of southern states
https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/reasons-secession
- Moved rapidly upon the election of Lincoln.
-South Carolina had acted first, requesting a convention to secede the union.
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Fort Sumner is fired upon
https://www.civilwar.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
-Failed to get rid of tension, making Beauregard take action.
-Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire arms on fort sumter.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Led up to the civil war as a result of the anti-slavery settlers being more than the pro slavery settlers.
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Uncle Toms Cabin
Uncle Toms Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowes is an antislavery novel. It sold 300,000 copies just in three months and was so well known that Abe Lincoln met her in 1812.
https://lostmuseum.cuny.edu/archive/exhibit/uncletom/
