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Invention of the cotten gin
The cotton Gin is a machine that is designed to remove cotton from its seeds it was invented by Eli Whitney. -
Embargo Act
Restricted international shipping (mainly to brittan) -
The missouri Comprimise
It was submitted by Henry Clay and was passed in 1820. It Prohibited slavery in the former Lousisian territiory. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
is an anti-slavery novel by author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War" It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s -
Tarriff of abominations
It Increased tax on important manufactured goods. The law beniffited the north but injured the south -
Compromise of 1850
It was 5 seprat billes passed in the US wich defused a 4 year confontation between the slave states and the non slave states (the north and the south) And it was trying to keep the "delicat balence" between the north and the south while trying to add new land and trying not to start a war. -
Kansas-Nabraska act
allowed people in kansa and nebraska to decide for them selfs wether or not to allow slavery within there borders. -
Dred Scott Case
a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri went to court saying that he should be emancipated because he was a resadent in a free state -
John Brown raides
lead an army of 18 men into harpers fairy and killed 52 men women and children. -
Elections of 1860
The United States had been divided during the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. and the elcections brought more fire into the arguments because the canadits had something to brib the people so that they could vote for them.? -
South Carolina seceds from the union
5 mounths after Aberham Lincon became presadet south carolina seceds from the unoin
