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Cotton Gin a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. It was invented by Eli Whitney
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United States bought 828,000,000 acres of territory from france. Which is now called Louisiana Purchase. It was one of the most important achievements of Thomas Jefferson.
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It was effort to preserve the balance of power in congress between slave and free state. It was admitting Missouiri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
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In 1823 president James Monroe used his 7th annual message to congress.
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It was a speech by Henry Clay. It was to proclaim his ideal of an "American system" of national development.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion was also known as Southampton Insurrection. He was a rebel slave and killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people.
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States had the right to nullify, or consider void , any act of congress that they deemed unconstitutional.
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It was growing tension between Mexico and Texas erupt into violence when Mexican soilders attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales witch turned into a war.
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It was a treaty signed in 1848 to end the war between US and Mexico.
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It was consisted of laws admitting California as a free state. It was also a package of five separate bills passed in the US.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin also known as Life Among the Lowly. It is a anit-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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It was allowing settlers of territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new settlers borders.
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On 1856, in the United States Congress, Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with his walking cane and nearly died.
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It was a decision affirming the right of slave owners to take thier slaves in the western territories.
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John Brown and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en rout to Harper's Ferry.
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The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election.
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On this day, convention meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, unanimously adopted an ordinance dissolving the connection between South Carolina and the United States of America.
