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The cotton gin was a machine that separated seeds from cotton.(http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney)
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin to separate seeds from the cotton .
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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)]
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The Missouri Compromise was a United States federal statue that regulated slavery in the western territories .
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Nat turner rebllion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831.
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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.
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The Nat Turners Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831.
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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)
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e Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48
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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)
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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)
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The bleeding-Kansas is a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters
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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.
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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."
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Dred Scott Decision was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law.
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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.
