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Invention of the Cotton Gin
The cotton gin had a huge impact on slavery. Slaves could produce cotton 50x faster so slavery exploded. Cotton also became the king crop in the south. -
Missouri Compromise
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Compromise of 1850
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book written about slavey in the north and south. The way the slavery problem was described turned many European countries against the south. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Dred Scott Supreme Court Case
The reason this case is so imortant is because the Supreme Court ruled slaves as property, so Scott shouldn't have even had a trial. The reason he went to the court was because he had lived in a free state so he thought he should be considered a free slave. But 4 members had already supported slavery so he had a disadvantage. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
These deabtes are improtant not because Lincoln won, which he didn't. But because Lincoln was recognized as a leader of the growing Republican Party. -
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
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Election of Lincoln
With Lincoln being elected, South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union. They did simply because they knew with Lincoln as president, slavery had a higher chance of being abolished. Many states in the south soon folloowed. -
Secession of South Carolina
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Attack on Fort Sumter
