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Invention of the Cotton Gin
Wikipedia A cotton gin is a maching that quickly and easily seperates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job that otherwise must be performed painstakingly by hand. -
Missouri Comprimise
Wikipedia The Missouri Comprise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
Comprimise of 1850
Wikipedia The Comprimise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Wikipedia Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly is and anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Comprimise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each terrirory. -
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Election of Lincoln
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