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The invention of the cotton gin
- Eli whitney was involved
- It was a machine made to speed up the seperation of the seed and the cotton
- Invention in the south of the United States
- March 14 1794
- Sped up the process to seperate seeds from the cotton
- There was more need for slavery
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The Missouri Compromise
- Citizens of maine ansd massachussettes
- Missouri was admitted as a slave state 3.Maine
- 1819
- It admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and barred slavery from the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30' parallel.
- Because of slavery
- Became a slave state
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The Tariff Abomination
- Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson
- Protective tariff designed to protect industry in northern states
- United states
- May 19th 1828
- It was a protective tariff designed to protect industry in the northern United States
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The Compromise of 1850
- California, New mexico, Utah, Washington DC, Texas
- a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress
- California, New mexico, Utah, Washington DC, Texas
- 1850
- defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War
- Compromise because they were deciding the territories
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Book was published about slavery
- Hartford CT
- March 20th 1852
- because it was a book about anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
- conflict because it made people join the abolishment movement
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Bleeding Kansas
- Kansas and Missouri
- Free state victory
- Kansas nad Missouri
- May 30 1854
- was to let people vote for anti slavery and pro slavery
- people started top get violent about different viewpoints
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The Kansas- Nebraska Act
- Kansas and Nebraska
- deciding if slavery would be allowed in nebraska and kansas
- kansas and nebraska
- May 30th 1854
- Because slavery was to be decided in the 2 states
- compromise because they were making a decision
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John Brown's Raid
- John Brown
- John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of HARPER'S FERRY, Virginia.
- Harpers Ferry, Virginia
- Oct. 16th 1859 5.His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal
- Conflict because he wanted to start a rebellion
- His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal
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The Election of 1860
- Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas was involved
- Abraham Lincoln was elected president
- In all states but no territories
- Tuesday, Nov.6 1860
- The Election change American history -Because the southern states didnt want Lincoln as president because he wanted to end slavery