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First African slaves are imported into the North American colonies claimed by Great Britain.
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Founding fathers make slavery constitutional when writting the Constitution.
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Eli Whitneys invention made the prduction of cotton so much more valueble requiring a great demand for slaves in the south.
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This compromise would divide the country in half literally and in spirit into slave and free states , only adding tention to the counrty and balance of power.
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Book describing the horrors African American slaves had to suffer from their own owners.
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This act put up the states to be voted on by their own people to decide if they wanted to be free or slave states, this went against the Missiouri compromise and would only leed to events like bleeding Kansas.
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Both pro and anti slavery groups in the state were attacking each other to prevent them from voting.
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This court case stated that African Americans had no right to become actual American Citizens and could not sue in Federal court.
Not only that, Scott had to return to being a slave even though his owner had died. -
John brown attacked a military arsenal at Harpers Ferry attempting to start a revolt to liberate slaves.
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The election of Abraham Lincoln would cause South Carolina to become the first of the states to succeed from the union.
