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Industrial Evolution
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Fugitive Slave Act
This act forced any escaped slaves to be taked back to their origional plantation, and for any free states to help. -
Cotton Gin Validated
The cotton gin made cotton an even more succesful good, causing the workload for slaves and women alike to increase. This angered abolitionists. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri compromise line set the border of free vs. slave states. It stated that any stated created above the compromise line will be free, and any states created below it would be slave states. -
Tariff Act
The tatiff act of increased the fee merchants had to pay for importing goods. This outraged the sourthern states, contributing to the division of Northern and Southern states. -
Nullification Act
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Wilmont Proviso
The Wilmont Proviso would have, if passed, made all of the land aquired in the Mexican-American war free states. -
Harriet Tubman's Slavery Trips
She is well known throughout all of the underground railroad , she saved over 300 slaves. During a ten year span she made 19 trips to the south and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom in the north, she never lost a passanger. She had to return to the south multiple times as a run away slave. Former slave. $40,000 captive rewards. -
Compromise of 1850
The states voted for the new westrern lands to be slave or free. The Fugitive Slave act was then made official law. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Removed Missouri compromise line.After its removal, Lincoln created the Republican party to fight against slavery. -
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Civil War
The Civil Was the battle between the Northern and Southern states. -
Civil War begins
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Civil War Ends