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Invention of the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney was the creator of the cotton gin in 1794. This machine sped up the process of removing the cotton seeds from the cotton so the production of cotton was much higher then before when all seeds had to be picked by hand.
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Missouri Compromise
Missouri wanted statehood and they finally got it even though it made a firm line of where anywhere north or the state line, slavery was prohibited and south of the line
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Nat Turners Rebellion
Black American slave who led the only effective slave rebellion and it then spread terror throughout the white south and it also set off a new legislation prohibiting education, movement, and the assembly of slaves.
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Wilmont Proviso
Wanted to eliminate slavery within the land acquired during the Mexican war. This idea of eliminating slavery was only 3 months into the Mexican war -
Compromise of 1850
5 laws passed in September and they all dealt with the issue of slavery and they wanted to kill the crisis between the north and the south and how they thought on slaves. -
Underground Railroad
This was used to help black slaves escape. They called it the railroad because they said people who helped them used terms like they were on the railroads because trains had just gotten to be big during this time. -
Bleeding Kansas
Term used to describe the time of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory and in 1854 was a big part weather or not the area would be a free state or a slave state. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Passed by the U.S. Congress in May of 1854 and it allowed territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide themselves weather or not to allow slavery within their state lines or not. -
Brooks-Sumner Event
Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with a cane and senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was an abolitionist and a leader of the Republican party. -
Dred Scott Decision
The supreme court issued a decision in the Dred Scott case that affirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories. -
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Secession of Southern States
South Carolina on December 20, 1860 all the way to Tennessee on June 8, 1861 states joined the government and then the union was divided and the 21 northern states divided from the 11 southern states. -
Fort Sumter is Fired Upon
April 12th at 4:30 am the confederate guns opened fire for 33 hours straight; the fort raised a white flag and that showed they surrendered. Not one person was killed from the firing of the confederate guns.
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