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Underground Railroad
.Use as away for slaves could escape
. Harret Tubman is mostly known from the Underground Railroad
.It was the way towards freedom for slaves
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Cotton Grin
- Created by Eli Whitney
- After cotton gin was invented cotton became king of the south earning the name "King Cotton".
- Since the cotton gin made it easier to separate cotton larger farm owners started to buy more slaves to produce more cotton faster than ever.
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Missouri Compromise
.Congress passes this bill as a first attempt to solve the problem between the North and the South about Missouri being a free state or a slavery state.
.James Tallmadge introduced a bill to admit Missouri into the Union as a state where slavery was prohibited, but the South feared that it would throw off the balance of power between them.
.Congress passed a bill allowing Missouri to be slave state under the condition that slavery was was not allowed to the rest of Louisiana. -
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Tariff of 1828
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Liberator First Publish
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Nat's Tuner's Rebellion
A slave that had enough and decide to fight back against those who keep declared him as a slave
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Wilmot Proviso
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
. Was a spark in the North because they would read about how the slaves were treated and the North wouldn’t take that miss treatment of that no more.
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Kansas & Nebraska act
. One side wanted Kansa to be a free state
. While the other side wanted it be a slave state
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Bleeding Kansas
A battle between two sides one that was against slavery and another that wanted slavery in Kansas
The voting stands became so crowded with both sides with different opinions about Kansa so they went to battle
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Brooks Sumner event
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Dred Scott
A slavery that waswith his master, and him and his master traveled north and he went to court for his freedom saying that he was taken to a free state so he should be free
He’s sues his master for his freedom
But he ends up loosing and going back to slavery -
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
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Fort Sumter Attacked
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secession of southern states
.The south wanted to be their own country and decided to seperate from the union
. Cause of this it was the main start of the civil war to begin
. They would lose at the end of the war, and was once agin combined back into the Union
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Election of 1860
