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The Invention of the Cotton Gin
Cotton GinBy the Mid-19th century cotton had became America's leading export. Inspiring inventor Eli Whitney to patten a machine known as the cotton gin that revoluntionized the production of cotton. Which lead to southerns to bring more slaves to the states to pick more cotton. -
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The Unerground Railroad
Underground RailroadThe Underground Railroad was the term used to describe a network of meeting plages, secret routes, passageways and safe houses used by slaves in the U.S. to escape slave holding states to northern states and Canada. An estimate of 100,000 slaves escaped upsetting many southerners. -
The Missouri Compromise
Missouri CompromiseThe Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. This contributed to the Civil War by concerning southerns about if Congress could make laws regarding slavery. -
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Events that lead to the civil war
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat TurnerTurner and a group of followers killed some sixty white men, women, and children on the night of August 21. Turner and 16 of his conspirators were captured and executed, but the incident continued to haunt Southern whites. The picture was published in newspaper in 1831 account of the slave uprising. -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850According to the compromise, Texas would relinquish the land in dispute but, in compensation, be given 10 million dollars. Also, the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be organized without mention of slavery. Regarding Washington, the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, although slavery would still be permitted. Finally, California would be admitted as a free state. Over the following decade the country's citizens became further divided. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is Publsihed
Uncle Tom's CabinThe book had a major influence on the way the American public viewed slavery. While living in Cincinnati, Stowe encountered fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad. Later, she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws. -
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'Bleeding Kansas'
'Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. People of Kansas believed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state. -
Dred Scott Decision
857 Supreme Court case that ruled the already superseded Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, neither Congress nor territorial legislatures could limit slavery in U.S. territories, that people of African ancestry were not entitled to citizenship or constitutional protections, and that slaves were not freed if they were taken into jurisdictions that banned slavery. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
1858, when both were campaigning for election to the United States Senate from Illinois. Much of the debating concerned slavery and its extension into territories such as Kansas. -
Election of 1860
1860 Election
When the voting concluded on November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln had received more popular votes in the United States than any of the other candidates and had won a majority of the electoral votes. In Virginia, it was the closest presidential election in history. -
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Secession of Southern States
Southern States SecessionThe eleven states in the Lower and Upper South severed their ties with the Union.
