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Eli Whitney patened the first cotton gin in 1794. The cotton gin was a machine that removed seeds quicker from the cotton. Making cotton the leading export in the 19th century. Also giving southern planters a justification to expand slavery.
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Tensions between Ani-Slavery and Pro-Slavery came to an increasing higher rate creating an imaginary line between the former louisiana territory.
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In 1828 the govenment had passed a high protective tariff, it infuriated many southerners because import trading became a higher price and benfiting the northerners
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Teh liberator was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831.
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The wilmont Proviso was a treaty designed to eliminate slavery starting the mexican war (1846 -1848)
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A treaty designed to eliminate slavery
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The compromise of 1850 was 5 laws that were passed dealing with slavery, amending the Fugitive Slave Act and the slave trade in Washington D.C. was abolished, California enterd the union, making a boundary dispute between Texas and Mexico.
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Dred Scott was a slave whose owner, an army doctor, had spent time in Illinois, a free state, and Wisconsin, a free territory at the time of Scott’s residence.
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The Lincoln & Douglas debate was a series of 7 debates for State Senate from Illinois Lincoln Republican and Douglas Democratic
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