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Invention of the Cotton Gin
1) Eli Whitney
2) Invented machine for making cotton at a faster speed.
3) United States
5) Revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
6) This invention gave southern plantation owners reason to keep and expand slavery. -
Embargo Act of 1807
1) President Thomas Jefferson
2) The Embargo Act of 1807 imposed a general embargo that made any and all exports from the United States illegal. It was sponsored by President Thomas Jefferson and enacted by Congress. The goal was to force Britain and France to respect American rights during the Napoleonic Wars.
3) United States
5) This was an attempt to force Britian and France to respect our rights during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Missouri Compromise
1) Henry Clay
2) The 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. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.
3) United States
5) This divided the slave states and territory from the free states and territory.
6) This event was a compromise because it separated slave and free states. -
Tariff of Abominations
1) President John Quincy Adams
2) The tariff sought to protect northern and western agricultural products from competition with foreign imports; however, the resulting tax on foreign goods would raise the cost of living in the South and would cut into the profits of New England's industrialists.
3) Nationally
5) Because it created sectionalism between the north and south.
6)It showed conflict because South Carolina threatend to leave the union. -
Compromise of 1850
1) Henry Clay
2) The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–48).
3) United States
5) It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, -
Kansas Nebraska Act
1) Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois.
2) The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up many thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad.
3) Kansas–Nebraska
5) This was important because it basically tossed the Missouri Compromise out the door.
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Bleeding Kansas
1) John Brown
2) A series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements in Kansas.
3) Kansas
5) The first time that the slave states and free states butted heads with violence.
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Dred Scott Case
1) Dred Scott and John Sanford
2) The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom.
3) Illinois and Wisconson
5) This case was important because Dred Scott was trying to get granted his freedom after living as afree slave in Illinois and Wisconson. -
John Brown's Raid
1) John Brown
2) John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
3) Harper's Ferry, Virginia
5) It did succeed to deepen the divide between the North and South.
6) It showed the south that the abolitionist were willing to resort to violence to get there point across. -
Election of !860
1) Abraham Lincoln and John Brekenridge
2) Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.
3) Nation Wide
4) November 6th, 1860
5) This was important because following the election South Carolina seceded from the union.
6) This event showed conflict between the Abraham Lincoln and the slave states. -
South Carolina Secedes from the Union
1) President Lincoln and South Carolina
2) SC seceded from the union because of the Lincoln being voted into office.
3) South Carolina
5) Because of this 7 other states followed in the foot steps of SC and seceded from the union as well.
