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Eli Whitney created the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized that production of cotton by greatly sped by removing seeds from cotton.
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A vast number of people that helped fugitives slaves escape to the North to Canada.
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Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave .
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The Liberator was a weekly published newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston Massachusetts.
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Known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virgina, during August 1831.
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Congress man David Wilmont first introduced the proviso in the Untied State in the United States House of Repesentives . As a rider on 2,000,000 appropriation bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American war.
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Divisions over slavery territory in the Mexican-American war. War resolved in the Compromise of 1850.
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US court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, giving slave owners the right to take their slaves into the Western territories.
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A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephien A. Douglas in 1853, when both were campaigning for election to the Unites States Senate from Illinois.
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Morning time confederate guns surround around the harbor and open fire on the Fort Sumter.
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After the civil war, four slave states of the upper south - Virginia, Arkansas,Tennessee, and North Carolina. Also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy.
