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The Cotton Gin was created by a man named Eli Whitney.
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Admitted Missouri as a slave state, and Maine as a free state. This was because states wanted to keep a balance of power in congress. A new law was put in place that if a slave state was added to the union, a free state was required to be put in also.
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California was admitted as a free state. But there was no admission of a slave state, so in turn, a new Fugative slave act was put in place. This made the Northern assist in the return of run-away slaves. This angered northerners, as they had to worry about something that didn't even occur in their part
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This was a book written by Harriet Beeder Stowe, an abolitionist, which exposed the evil of slavery to the world. The book was a world-wide bestseller. One of the impacts of this was that Europe stopped trading with (south) America, because they realized that they were buying product from slavery.
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This was an act passed by congress that stated the position of slavery in their states was to be decided upon by popular sovereignty. Basically, they didn't really care.
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This was a very important event. Abraham Lincoln did so well in the debates, that he set himself up to be the leader of the Republican Party.
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