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Invention of Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented a machine that influenced the history of the United States. He invented a cotton gin that was popular in the South. The South became the cotton producing part of the country because Whitney’s cotton gin was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton bolls. -
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The underground Railroad
Network of secrer routes & safe houses used by 19th Century enslaved people of african desent in the unsited states. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri CompromiseTo balance the order of power in congress between slaves and free states. After the missouri Compromise Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free state. -
Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
In 1828, Congress passed a high protective tariff that infuriated the southern states because they felt it only benefited the industrialized north. If a state found a federal law unconstitutional and detrimental to its sovereign interests, it would have the right to "nullify" that law within its borders. -
The Liberator is published
The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
A slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people. -
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Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land gained as a result of the Mexican War. -
Compromise Of 1850
compromiseAn attempt to sek a compromise and avert a crisis between the North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the fugitive Slave Act was amended and Slave Trade was abolished in Washington D.C. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published
Anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebrask Act was a bill that allowed settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. -
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Bleeding Kansas
series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery in the Kansas territory. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred scottThe US Supreme Court issued a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, there by negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and dermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, and Stephen Douglas. The debates were held in seven towns in the state of Illinois: Ottawa on August 21, Freeport on August 27, Jonesboro on September 15, Charleston on September 18, Galesburg on October 7, Quincy on October 13, Alton on October 15 -
