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invention of the cotton gin
The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1794. This sped up production of cotton by removing the seeds from the cotton fiber and caused a increase of slaves in the south.
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underground rail road
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early-to-mid 19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The network of secret routes violated state laws and the Constitution
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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was congress agreeing to letting Missouri become a slave state as long as Maine became a free state. It also passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory, establishing a boundary between free and slave regions. this caused the Nation to split apart.
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Tariff of 1828
the Tariff of Abominations designed to protect industry in the northern United States. It set a 62% tax on 92% of all imported goods The South was harmed directly by having to pay higher prices on goods the region did not produce. This caused the prices of slaves to increase rapidly, causing an uproar in the south.
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Nullification Crisis
The issue involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal Government. It happened after South Carolina declared the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional, making them null and void in the sovereign boundaries of the state. The US suffered economic downturn throughout the 1820s. many S.C politicians blamed the American manufacturing over its European competition.
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Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. This was a major cause of the Civil War.
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compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. According to Will Kaufman the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War."
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'bleeding Kansas'
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern" elements in Kansas.
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Brooke-Sumner Event
The Brooks-sumner Event happened in the United States Senate when Preston Brooks attacked Charles Sumner with a walking cane in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier. In the speech he fiercely criticized slaveholders including a relative of Brooks. It has been considered symbolic of the “breakdown of reasoned discourse” that eventually led to the Civil War.
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Lincoln-Douglas
The Great Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. Although Illinois was a free state, the main issue discussed in all seven debates was slavery in the United States.
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Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln defeated John C. Breckinridge, Stephan A. Douglas, and John Bell. The defeat led to seven Southern states to secede, setting the stage for the American Civil War.
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secession of southern states
The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union.
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