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Cottin Gin
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 -
Louisiana Purchas
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. -
Missouri Compromise
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. -
Monroe Doctrine
In 1823 president James Monroe used his 7th annual message to congress. -
American System
It was a speech by Henry Clay. It was to proclaim his ideal of an "American system" of national development. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion was also known as Southampton Insurrection. He was a rebel slave and killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people. -
Nullification Crisis
States had the right to nullify, or consider void , any act of congress that they deemed unconstitutional. -
Texas Revolution
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. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago
It was a treaty signed in 1848 to end the war between US and Mexico. -
Compromise of 1850
It was consisted of laws admitting California as a free state. It was also a package of five separate bills passed in the US. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin also known as Life Among the Lowly. It is a anit-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It was allowing settlers of territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new settlers borders. -
Beating of Charles Summer
On 1856, in the United States Congress, Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with his walking cane and nearly died. -
Dred Scott Decision
It was a decision affirming the right of slave owners to take thier slaves in the western territories. -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en rout to Harper's Ferry. -
Election of 1860
The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election. -
South Carolina Secedes
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.
