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  • Antebellum South

    Antebellum South
    The Antebellum South (also known as the antebellum era or plantation era) was a period in the history of the Southern United States from the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 until the start of the American Civil War in 1861.

  • Creation of the Cotton Gin

    Creation of the Cotton Gin
    U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. For his work, he is credited as a pioneer of American manufacturing.

  • First Modern Depression America

    First Modern Depression America
    Then, in 1819, an economic panic occurred, resulting in the first "modern" depression in the history of the United States. People across the entire United States were affected. Factories in New England closed, unemployment increased, and cotton prices in the South dropped. For example, the average price of cotton in New Orleans dropped from more than 30 cents a pound to less than 15 cents a pound in 1822. However, the section of the country most severely affected was the West.

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act,because of the debates between Lincoln and Douglas.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    Passed on September 18, 1850 by Congress, The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.

  • Dred Scott v. Sanford Decision

    Dred Scott v. Sanford Decision
    Sanford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States.

  • Lincoln’s Election

    Lincoln’s Election
    It was held to nominate the Republican Party's candidates for president and vice president in the 1860 election. The convention selected former Representative Abraham Lincoln of Illinois for president and Senator Hannibal Hamlin of Maine for vice president. Entering the 1860 convention, Senator William H.

  • Civil War

    Civil War
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    The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states' rights and westward expansion. ... The War Between the States, as the Civil War was also known, ended in Confederate surrender in 1865.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.

  • Lincoln’s Death

    Lincoln’s Death
    Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C