Guillermo and Keishon's Interesting Timeline on Causes of the Civil War

  • Invention of Cotton gin

    Invention of Cotton gin
    The cotton gin was a machine that separated seeds from cotton.(http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney)
  • Invention Of The Cotton Gin

    Invention Of The Cotton Gin
    Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin to separate seeds from the cotton .
  • Missouri compromise

    Missouri compromise
    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.[(http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise)]
  • Missouri Comprise

    The Missouri Compromise was a United States federal statue that regulated slavery in the western territories .
  • Net Turner's rebellion

    Net Turner's rebellion
    Nat turner rebllion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831.
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    Underground Railroad

    The Under Ground Railroad was the describe a network of meeting places, secret routes, passageways and safe houses used by slaves in the U.S. to escape slave holding states to northern states and Canada.
  • Nat Turners Rebellion

    The Nat Turners Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831.
  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso
    The wilmot proviso was designed to eliminate slavery acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48). Soon after the war began, President James K. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million as part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty. (http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise)
  • Wilmont Proviso

    e Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished (http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise)
  • Election of 1860

    United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.(http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise)
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    The bleeding-Kansas is a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters
  • Kansas Nebraska act

    The Kansas-Nebraska-Actallowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
  • Brooks Sumner event

    Brooks  Sumner event
    The Brooks Sumner Event was Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was an avowed Abolitionist and leader of the Republican Party. After the sack of Lawrence, on May 21, 1856, he gave a bitter speech in the Senate called "The Crime Against Kansas."
  • Dred Scott Decison

    Dred Scott Decision was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law.
  • Lincoln Douglas debate's

    Lincoln Douglas debate's
    The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.